Countdown to season opener: The 10 Best Baseball Movies #4 "Eight Men Out" (1988)

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Noted independent filmmaker John Sayles exquisitely detailed the 1919 Black Sox scandal which nearly destroyed major league baseball. The eight men out were Chicago White Sox players accused of throwing the World Series in a fix engineered by notorious gambler Arnold Rothstein. The players did it because White Sox owner Charles Comisky was a cheapskate. Legendary player Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from the game despite playing well because of allegations he was in the know: "Say it ain't so, Joe." Period atmosphere is superb. The stellar cast includes a young Charlie Sheen and John Cusack. Image is Pixabay