Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them 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.

• DirectorJohn Sayles
• Release2 September 1988
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration2h
• Budget$6,100,000
• Revenue$5,700,000
• Rate
  

  6.9
  248 reviews
• Productions

  Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions