So, uh, why is MLB celebrating this 1989 movie with a MLB game featuring the same team, 102 years later, that took money to throw the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds? Why?
First, there was another movie made one year earlier about those same 1919 Chicago White Sox:
Eight Men Out 1988
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series...
professional gamblers begin to feel out who they believe may be sympathetic Chicago players to a game and/or series fixing scheme
 | Ray Liotta | Shoeless Joe Jackson |
 | Michael Milhoan | Buck Weaver - 3B |
 | Steve Eastin | Eddie Cicotte - P |
 | Charles Hoyes | Swede Risberg - C |
 | Art LaFleur | Chick Gandil - 1B |
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Field of Dreams 1989
"ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series"
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left • Throws: Right
6-1, 200lb (185cm, 90kg)
Born: July 16, 1887 in Pickens County, SC us
Died: December 5, 1951
Buried: Woodlawn Memorial Park, Greenville, SC
Maybe the MLB association with gambling websites like DraftKings has made its collective brain turn to mush.
mlb.com today:
Featured actor in the movie Kevin Costner, 66 years old, walked out onto the field before last night's game in Dyersville, Iowa between the White Sox and Yankees. He appeared to be either acting silently or in some kind of daze. He welcomed the MLB players from the 2021 White Sox and Yankees who emerged from the cornfield beyond the outfield fence. Visually impressive for a short time but if you thought at all about the disgraceful events that this movie and now MLB chose to ignore, it's incomprehensible. Certainly not:
Pride of the Yankees, 1942
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
Babe Ruth with actor Gary Cooper
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Public domain
via Wikimedia Commons
Black Sox: some thoughts. Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Joe Jackson was a weasel. That seems to be his defense or his defense by others...
... he was a weasel who took the money then played to win, leaving his friend Lefty Williams and the other six conspirators to bear the burden of actually throwing the games? Joe Jackson was the star player on the White Sox, a sure Hall of Famer, and he took money intended to fix the WORLD SERIES. Why did he accept it? What did Jackson think the money was for? Then he may have tried to report it, sort of. Then he played to win. Weasel!
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