Sunday, March 4, 2018

Gambling.........horse racing....................................betting odds.......math.......Las Vegas....


Buck Weaver (Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Sheen) are young idealistic players with the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning teamowned by Charles Comiskeya penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treatsthem with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.      

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