The ballpark presented a few challenges for the production crew. The movie shoot would then move to Bush Stadium which was transformed into Cincinnati’s Redland Field. “Joe Jackson, one of the most famous of the banned baseball players, is playing on one of these minor league teams in 1925, really showing the audience that baseball was the love of his life and he couldn’t give it up,” a production member told Lupear. It featured disgraced player, Joe Jackson, who had found a way to continue playing the game despite being banned from Major League Baseball. WRTV reporter Linda Lupear was at Metro Stadium as crews shot one of the film’s final scenes amid Indiana’s quickly-changing fall weather. The production filmed at several locations around Indianapolis including Metro Stadium on Rural Street and Bush Stadium. “ only making two or three grand a year, tops, and he saw it as a way to make some cash playing for one of the cheapest owners of all time,” Sheen said. Sheen talked to WRTV’s Reid Duffy about portraying White Sox center fielder Happy Felsch. The movie adaptation featured appearances by Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, John Cusack and Charlie Sheen. It told the scandalous story of game-fixing by eight Chicago White Sox players during the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

The film “Eight Men Out,” was based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book, “Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.” I give it 7/10.INDIANAPOLIS - Fresh off the success of “Hoosiers,” Tinstletown returned to the Hoosier State to shoot another sports-themed movie in 1987. The atmosphere of the post - I world war America is top notch, especially the music. It's quite long movie (almost 2 hours), yet never a moment is wasted. It's entertaining even for someone who doesn't know a thing about baseball (like me).

The movie has cast full of stars – John Cusack ('Say anything'), Christopher Lloyd ('Back to the future'), Charlie Sheen (TV series 'Two and half men'), Michael Rooker ('Cliffhanger'). It seems that everyone here has some sins – the players, the club owners, the journalists and frauds.

The movie never takes any side, it allows us to choose our own interpretation of whole story. 'Eight men out' is a story about corruption. Then I realized that you could make a serious movie with baseball in it. Until I've seen 'Field of dreams' and this one. The only movies about baseball that could interest me were comedies ('Major league', 'Dullham bulls').

Eight men out by eliot asinof