Eight Men Out (12/12) Movie CLIP - It's Him (1988) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
At a minor league game, Buck (John Cusack) tells some New Jersey fans that he saw Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) play.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different breed from the well-paid stars of later years. The Chicago White Sox owner, Charlie Comiskey (Clifton James), is portrayed as a skinflint with little inclination to reward his team for their spectacular season. When a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein (Michael Lerner) gets wind of the players' discontent, it offers a select group of stars -- including pitcher Eddie Cicotte (Sayles regular David Strathairn), infielder Buck Weaver (John Cusack), and outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) -- more money to play badly than they would have earned to try to win the Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Sayles cast the story with actors who look and perform like real jocks, and added a colorful supporting cast that includes Studs Terkel as reporter Hugh Fullerton and Sayles himself as Ring Lardner.
CREDITS:
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Cast: Patrick Brown, John Cusack, John Griesemer, Michael B. Preston, D.B. Sweeney, Charles Yankoglu
Director: John Sayles
Producers: Barbara Boyle, Jerry Offsay, Sarah Pillsbury, Peggy Rajski, Midge Sanford
Screenwriters: Eliot Asinof, John Sayles
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[@ErichLRuehs]

What a great scene, perfectly acted and directed. And despite playing "for peanuts" in some bush league in New Jersey, I can't help but feel Shoeless Joe is happy standing at third base after dominating in the game he truly loved. Bush leagues, or not, baseball is baseball.

[@bbbroodatscool]

Yup, all he wanted to do was play ball.

[@ErichLRuehs]

@@bbbroodatscool I did today, with my son. I'm old, he's young. I think it was Heaven. Or .... Kentucky. Best day ever.

[@michaelfsmith3208]

For sure. All he wanted to do was be idolized by millions while cheating, lying, and taking in a fortune from gangsters. Not like those losers in the stands, who worked in factories and saved up to take their kid to the show. He was way better than them.

[@ErichLRuehs]

@@michaelfsmith3208 Ouch. You have a point. BUT, dang, could he get back there. AND, I saw him play.

[@AsavageEP]

@@michaelfsmith3208”taking in a fortune” Ha ha ha

[@rs8247]

Buck weaver protecting his friend and teammate until the end!

[@CouchPotatoWrestling]

He ran, he threw, he sold shoes. He was the best.

[@danielcarter305]

I loved when "Married With Children" did the " Eight Men Out" tribute!❤❤

[@aaronleverton4221]

It sucks that Joe Jackson was banned for life from baseball, but at least he had a few hits in the early '80s.

[@KC-fb8ql]

😂

[@rustykuntz94]

That's a good one, if more people got the refrence you should have a thousand more likes

[@aaronleverton4221]

@@rustykuntz94 Hey, I knew Adam Schiff was going to be a good prosecutor during Trump's impeachment because he spent a decade as New York DA.

[@donnix1192]

@@aaronleverton4221 Adam Schiff is lying human excrement.

[@toyman81]

Yes, I get it, Had the album, Stepping out Tonight!!@@rustykuntz94

[@eldesgraciado6690]

"He ran, He threw, He sold shoes"

[@tg-pl4vl]

Just watched that episode and had to come watch this lol

[@randomtraveler9854]

Jackson never sold shoes, his nickname comes from a game he took his cleats off because they were uncomfortable and played in his socks. He owned a liquor store in later years. I think he coached out law leagues as well but I could be wrong.

[@eldesgraciado6690]

@@randomtraveler9854 It's a quote from Married With Children, buddy.

[@jacobingle4023]

@@randomtraveler9854 he was referencing a quote off an episode of married with children. The ending of the episode that he quoted is a reference to the ending of this movie

[@spacemountain5624]

I was scrolling down and hoping someone would reference this. Nice work

[@RaulMacias-o9o]

This is my favourite part of the movie. D B. Sweeney is great as "Shoeless" Joe Jackson displaying his defensive and offensive skills! I love how he rockets the ball into Center Field and dashes in for a stand up Triple! John Cusack is such a great actor portraying "Buck Weaver". Tears well up in my eyes when he says, with such melancholy, "I saw him play". This is my all-time favourite Major League Baseball motion picture drama!

[@ryanmclaughlin2610]

Always liked D.B. Sweeney's portrayal of Jackson over Ray Liotta

[@cedricgist7614]

And they had him bat left-handed as he was supposed to. Still, "Field of Dreams" was a near-perfect movie. And "Eight Men Out" is a classic.

[@randomtraveler9854]

D.B. was more accurate. He batted left and used a southern accent, both of which were consistent with the real Jackson. Ray batted right and used his northern accent.

[@rustykuntz94]

Spencer Grant Field of Dreams had it reversed. Ray Liotta batted righty but threw with his left hand which Ray is left handed as I’ve seen him in other roles eating and writing with his left hand. An oddity that doesn’t occur often. Plenty of player bat left and throw righty.

[@shrapnel77]

@@rustykuntz94 Yes, very rare. Ricky Henderson comes to mind.

[@rustykuntz94]

shrapnel77 Yep, also former Braves first basemen Brian Hunter. Actually strangely enough a lot of left handed pitchers bat right handed I’ve noticed in the last few years and that’s odd because it then exposes their pitching arm To being hit by a pitch.

[@leftcoaster67]

Damn this hurts every time. Well acted and directed.

[@HingYok]

I read from somewhere that later on he had to play in those bush leagues with fictitious names but was always easily found out because he was too good. And he had to transfer to other teams under different names. If he was not involved in the scandal his life would not be so hard.

[@atthebridge]

He missed out on a lot but he did ok overall. He ran a dry cleaning business. Died pretty yoing though.

[@yomamasofat77]

I don't see how MLB had the authority to ban anyone from playing in Bush leagues

[@1313tennisman]

@@yomamasofat77 The MLB controlled those leagues

[@jondstewart]

@@atthebridgeyes he did, but until the 1960’s, most people didn’t make it to their 70’s or later.

[@Danimal1177]

Okay now I know where the ending to that one _Married...with children_ episode comes from.

[@johnhaladay5541]

Me, too! After all these years, it finally makes sense.

[@blessedfromday1170]

Joe never threw away that game just because he did not give 100% he was emence in the World Series

[@jondstewart]

He was! But he like Buck Weaver didn’t rat out the players on the fix, but unlike Buck, was guilty of taking the bribe money.

[@tonyanthonyfowler]

oh what a great movie.....Shoeless Joe got screwed....

[@randomtraveler9854]

Anthony F I read Lefty Williams was his best friend on the team (both were Southerners with Williams being from Missouri and Jackson from South Carolina) and often defended Joe when players harassed him. If that's true Williams completely betrayed Jackson.

[@donnix1192]

My cousin Patrick Brown is playing the role of the younger kid in the stands who is asking about Joe Jackson. He had his own trailer next to Charlie Sheen during the shoot.

[@jondstewart]

And the guy knowing who Joe Jackson is had a nice role in Matewan the year before as a coal miner bringing James Earl Jones up to the Union meeting with a rifle in hand.

[@diamondking3421]

This scene was later weirdly remade for Married...with Children.

[@leekee2578]

I saw that when I was a little kid before I saw the movie

[@Tim.Christopher]

Livin Gunk season 5, episode 4 :-)

[@bertrice999]

with Ian Ziering in the stands

[@donnix1192]

@@bertrice999 Ian Ziering was playing the role of the boy in the stands asking about Joe Jackson - played by my cousin Patrick Brown in the original

[@darrylbrown8253]

I LOVE historical baseball movies.

[@connorhaislip2401]

That’s a mansize chew there

[@chuckcap6878]

Keeps his right eye open further as the cheek is pulled away from the eye socket. No, really. The old farts will tell you that.

[@NDR-hn3ue]

The movie opened with a Triple and ended with a Triple

[@jacobjones5269]

The way he says “nahhh,” but but turns his head away and can’t look?.. Devastating.. John Cusack was never better than he was in this film, and in particular this scene..

[@johngogas4682]

Yes he was amazing in that scene . He wanted so bad to praise him but maybe didn’t want to give him up … shoeless Joe should absolutely be in the HOF

[@chuckcap6878]

@@johngogas4682 *WE* know he's a HOF'er, no matter what the goofs in the BBWAA or in the NY offices think.

[@angelvalle6515]

Bucky is a legend 💪

[@seanbrowning616]

They should lift the ban and put him in the Hall of Fame . He probably was innocent but was swept up by the other players.

[@usptatexaspro9032]

Agreed. Weaver and Jackson were absolutely innocent

[@mtg1470]

@@usptatexaspro9032 according to this movie they were, however, in actuality the weren't

[@jacobjones5269]

What Judge Landis did was certainly extreme.. But sometimes that’s what’s needed, and examples have to be made.. This is why he inserted the language about having knowledge about such schemes and not alerting anyone about that knowledge also being a ban able offense.. Loyalty to your teammates and team is one thing.. However, loyalty to the game reigns supreme, and all players moving forward must know that.. Hence the extremity of the punishment..

[@yomamasofat77]

​@@jacobjones5269it wasn't loyalty to the game it was loyalty to scumbag owners who paid them crap.

[@yomamasofat77]

I agree. He was banned for life but died decades ago so the ban should be lifted .

[@admirosmanovic1368]

Married with children s5e4 I knew this ending looked familiar to me

[@Troy_z]

It's him it's Al Bundy

[@porcupinecraig]

Actually, Joe and other black sox players did a lot of playing after the ban. They barnstormed all over the country and people knew who they were and wanted to see them play.

[@leroyshipp7532]

Dispite everything..Joe Jackson did do his best and I for one believe that he wasn't on the take. I also believe that he should be admitted into the baseball hall of fame. Just saying

[@patrickkanas3874]

The problem with Jackson's case is that his stats show that he did play worse in games that the Sox lost. (even though he still played better than the guys who were playing to lose) And even without that there was testimonies stating that he was aware of the meetings where they discussed throwing the series, even though he never attended them, and that he did receive about $10,000 the night before game 1 (Jackson claimed he wasn't aware of why he received the money and that he tried to tell Comiskey about it but he was turned away) I like to believe he was innocent but we will never know the true story

[@leroyshipp7532]

@@patrickkanas3874 you have a good point. I would still like to see Joe Jackson in the hall of fame. He deserves it. Can you tell me why he doesn't deserve it?

[@patrickkanas3874]

@@leroyshipp7532 I believe that he does deserve it unfortunately the only irrefutable proof that Jackson didn't deserve to be banned and could overturn his ban died over 50 years ago. And according to the MLB's rules a banned player cannot be inducted into the hall of fame

[@charliehustle5312]

cut the scene just a hair too early

[@novasite7795]

Married With Children brought me here.

[@kennybegeske8824]

This is going to be Just Like Edie from High school seeing me playing baseball

[@motownmiket1968]

Hey professor, read any good books lately?

[@speedraser2605]

Chicago for life. Rasers love baseball.

[@jeffreythomson3958]

According to the 2016 book Fall From Grace, a biography of Joe Jackson, he took $5.000 before Game 4 of the World Series.

[@randomtraveler9854]

jeffrey thomson That he tried to return to the White Sox before the 1920 season. He was told to keep it.

[@andrewthompson9811]

These guys make sure

[@seanheffernan1206]

To think he would be abducted by aliens

[@scottrichardson8158]

Never quite understood this ending. Obviously it IS Joe Jackson yet Buck Weaver says the player isn't. ???

[@leftcoaster67]

He knew Jackson was still playing what he loved, even if it was for peanuts. He was still supporting his friend. That's what friends do.

[@scottrichardson8158]

Oh, okay. Seems like a good explanation. BTW, I don't say one way or another that Joe Jackson was involved in the 1919 mess; he may have been, I can't say. But, I CAN say that this scandal, involving Joe Jackson, has obscured another Joe Jackson, whom I have met, who was definitely a hero. He did more than the baseball Joe Jackson ever did yet, because of the publicity concerning the baseball Joe Jackson, his heroism is not as well known. Look it up. Joe Jackson, recipient of the Medal of Honor. He is a REAL hero!! And, NO scandal associated with him. Yet, he has not gotten the overall public recognition that he definitely deserves.

[@snakes3425]

He knew Jackson was still playing both for the love of the game, and to support his family, even if it was for peanuts. He also likely feels guilty about ruining his friend's career

[@georgeespino964]

Scott Richardson, He was protecting his friend, he was keeping his ID quiet, because if the team found out, he would never play in the bush leagues, either. He was just protecting his friend, It’s just that simple.

[@patbaker1446]

So if he was playing really good in the bush league and they didn’t know it was really joe Jackson what would have happened if a major league team tries to call him up?

[@jmckdekalb316]

Chicago White Sox really change the rules on the game

[@rezdout]

Married with children brought me here

[@Mr-kq8xs]

1:49 😎

[@eugeneenegue3648]

After Hoboken he played for the New Market Mallers.

[@luisrodriguez-mb7cc]

What do you know? Charlie Sheen was part of two great 1980's Baseball films, EIGHT MEN OUT and MAJOR LEAGUE I. What are the odds of that happening?

[@Vinpo58]

Sheen could flat out play baseball. He was a HS varsity player in the 70’s. On the Santa Monica Vikings baseball team, he was a star shortstop and pitcher. His lifetime record as a pitcher was 40-15. A decent actor who looked good on the mound and could shag flys in center was a rare find for casting director.

[@jeffpotts2466]

Who was the guy that said I saw him play? Is it Buck Weaver?

[@devpatel7154]

Yeah

[@David-mf5nf]

a great movie dc

[@familyjoy5605]

nice video my friend

[@donhatter159]

What you mean?

[@jamesrivera4947]

Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis statement banned the seven White Sox players from playing "professional" baseball for life ⚾

[@1981lashlarue]

Eight players.

[@robertsoto8556]

Al Bundy brought me here.

[@TreGetem1]

Joe had nothing on Al

[@frankfurlacker5219]

I wonder why Weaver wouldn’t admit that it was Joe?

[@WinstonSmith24]

He wanted Shoeless Joe to be able to keep his anonymity so he’d be able to keep playing under the radar. That’s my guess.

[@frankfurlacker5219]

@@WinstonSmith24 Yeah but what was Joe going to do if he got called up to the bigs again under that fake name?

[@WinstonSmith24]

@@frankfurlacker5219 That part I don’t have an answer for. Perhaps it wasn’t even a minor league affiliate, just small town bush league. Who knows. It’s a cool final scene to the movie though, and it’s all up to interpretation.

[@coolcat6303]

Because if Weaver had told them the truth, word would’ve gotten out & Jackson would’ve very likely gotten kicked off the team because of his lifetime ban. The Bush league was basically like the Minor Leagues that we have today.

[@BlacKnightRising]

so that's what Married With Children based that scene on hehe

[@kennybegeske8824]

Who's Joe Jackson

[@kennybegeske8824]

Chicago White Sox

[@frankcamera1234]

Who are you talking ?

[@Granta_Omega]

Wait, so was it him?

[@mikekucera73]

Underdogs win too.

[@ChrisMcAlister-wl5wh]

🤺🇺🇸🗽

[@patrickkanas3874]

I hate to say it but Weaver deserved to be banned, he knew about the fix yet never even attempted to tell Gleeson or Comiskey about it.

[@scottrichardson8158]

Unfortunately you are correct. His actions were a crime known as misprision; he know of the felony but did not notify the authorities. That, in itself, is a felony and frequently prosecuted on the Federal level. Don't ask me how I know this. For some reason the Federal D.A. had Weaver tried on conspiracy instead of misprision. Regardless, he was involved with this mess. I believe he could be posthumously reinstated but with the understanding that the reinstatement is NOT a declaration of innocent; rather the feeling that he paid the price and should be allowed back in. IMHO

[@patbrooks9823]

Comiskey was an @$$hole. If he took care of his team, there would have been no fix.

[@chuckcap6878]

He should be banned just because of his acting.

[@BethHarmon-yh8ms]

@@chuckcap6878 What was wrong with his acting? He was great in this.

[@Asapyo93]

I am the first person to comment on this video.

[@smellpig1]

Who is that guy? It's the dishonest person that sold his soul for cash.

[@robertvysther1138]

Just like Politicians, except they can disrupt lives. Joe just did damage to himself. A great ball player though.

[@NormAppleton]

Compared to Mark Mcguire?. He took millions.

[@rustykuntz94]

Robert Vysther Bit the fact remains he hit like 400 in that WS, he obviously wasn’t playing to lose

[@frankcamera1234]

@@robertvysther1138 joe was handed money told to not ask question he couldn’t read anything he was signing and how you going to claim he cheat WHEN HE HIT SO MANY HOME RUNS IN THE SERIES AND HIT MOST HOME RUNS IN THAT SERIES

[@jessallen7756]

@@frankcamera1234 he did hit the most homeruns in that series ...he hit one.....no one else did

[@smellpig1]

A cheater don't look special.

[@srsr3439]

That's not what I told your wife.