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Lefty Williams

Eight Men Out author Eliot Asinof wrote that Williams eventually turned against the fix as he prepared for his final Series start; Asinof later admitted that this particular anecdote was made-up.

Arnold Rothstein

Rothstein was portrayed by several actors in films: By Robert Lowery in the 1960, The Rise and Fall of "Legs" Diamond; by David Janssen in the 1961, King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (aka The Big Bankroll); by Michael Lerner in the 1988, Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal; and by F. Murray Abraham, in the 1991 Mobsters.

Buck Weaver

Many parts of the story portrayed in the 1988 movie Eight Men Out are told from Buck Weaver's point of view, with Weaver being played by John Cusack.

Clifton James

He played a Navy Master at Arms in 1973's The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson and baseball team owner Charles Comiskey in the 1988 true story Eight Men Out, a drama about the corrupt 1919 Chicago White Sox.

Dickey Kerr

In the 1988 film Eight Men Out, about the Black Sox scandal, Kerr was portrayed by actor Jace Alexander.

Eliot Asinof

The book was published in 1963; the screenplay for the film Eight Men Out, co-written by Asinof and director John Sayles, appeared in 1988.

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Eliot Asinof

Asinof's most famous book, Eight Men Out, painstakingly reconstructed the events of the Black Sox scandal that marred the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds in the same year that Asinof was born.