My late Uncle actually went to this game when he was almost 18 living in Chicago. Of course he didn’t know there was a fix going on till later. It was the only home game the Sox won in the Series.
Kerr went 13-7 with a 2.88 ERA that season for the Sox, 2-0 with 1.42 ERA in the series. Had Red Faber (11-9, 3.83 ERA) been healthy (He had the flu), the series would not have been fixed as he would have pitched in a couple of games that Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams pitched (and lost)
The gamblers expected the Sox to lose this game. There's a story that says that "Sleepy" Bill Burns, one of the go-fers, bet heavily on Cincinnati that day, and ended up broke. According to Burns, who was set to catch a train that day, "I had to hock my ring to get back to Philadelphia."
The catcher giving Dickie encouragement was the man that cut the guy playing Dickie’s throat the year before in Matewan. Gordon Clapp was a brutal agent with the coal mining company and Jace Alexander was a striking worker caught stealing coal for heat.
Alexandre Bertrand-Lafleur, check out his performance in Casualties Of War. He played Corporal Thomas E. Clark. The film stars Michael J. Fox, and Sean Penn. It came out in '88, or '89. It's a good movie, but very depressing.
Yeah he’s really good at playing sleazy bad guys. Btw, he was also in The Untouchables. He played the deputy who sits next to Kevin Costner in the police car.
Daniel Linehan That was the era management held all the cards back then. Now it has swung completely the other way in the era of Free Agency and Guaranteed Contracts.
I also read that it was also because he played semipro with some of the banned ballplayers, Comiskey and Landis couldn't have been happy about that. But yes, the money issue was definitely the reason Kerr ended up getting suspended himself (though not for life like the infamous eight).
Had to check Baseball Reference and you were right! Now, I'm annoyed because "Field of Dreams" had Joe Jackson batting right-handed and "Eight Men Out" had Dickey Kerr pitching right-handed. I gave "Field of Dreams" a pass because it's fantasy - but come on! "Eight Men Out" is historical. Of course, if I were a true-blue baseball fan, I would have learned about this error decades ago. Still, it's a classic movie. Oh, thank you!
They could have reversed the film like in "Pride of the Yankees" but that would have meant sewing his jersey lettering on the other side. Too much trouble, I guess.
@@cedricgist7614 - also transcripts from the trial read that the players’ own greed not the low pay from Come was actually a deciding factor for the fix. But Hollywood has been distorting the truth, taking creative liberties, since 1920.
Dickey Kerr was actually a very seasoned minor league left hander. Tiny, like Cicotte and Williams, 5’ 9”, tops.. Reds had much deeper pitching than White Sox, as Faber unavailable due to lasting effects of Spanish Flu pandemic. Fun movie, but recent facts update some elements. Important to remember that “clean Sox” hit very poorly in series, testament to Reds’ pitching.
One of the reasons I went to see this in theaters is because he was in it. He had maybe 2 minutes of screen time with a line here and there. An ensemble cast and he was on the low end of it.
NL has only one 50 out of 115 World Series, even though it came first it’s hard to say it’s better than the American League cuz the stats say otherwise
Kerr was excellent that day, but not like he was whiffing everyone. He struck out four in a three-hit, complete-game effort. And yeah, as others noted, he was a lefty.
I don’t know why but I just love Kerr’s smile right before he throws the last pitch.
My late Uncle actually went to this game when he was almost 18 living in Chicago. Of course he didn’t know there was a fix going on till later. It was the only home game the Sox won in the Series.
Lawrence Bittke no he didn’t
Thats pretty friggin cool. That dude must've been born in 1902
RIP John Mahoney.
Later Kerr convinced Stan Musial to give up pitching and Musial bought him a house.
This is a true story ?
@@philippliskin9196 Yep.
Kerr went 13-7 with a 2.88 ERA that season for the Sox, 2-0 with 1.42 ERA in the series.
Had Red Faber (11-9, 3.83 ERA) been healthy (He had the flu), the series would not have been fixed as he would have pitched in a couple of games that Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams pitched (and lost)
or maybe they would have gone with a three man rotation of Cicotte, Lefty, Faber. And Dickie woulda just come outta the bullpen
I loved this part. Just a kid having the time of his life!
That what baseball all about
@@gregwatson8219 To us, yes..to them it’s business
The gamblers expected the Sox to lose this game. There's a story that says that "Sleepy" Bill Burns, one of the go-fers, bet heavily on Cincinnati that day, and ended up broke. According to Burns, who was set to catch a train that day, "I had to hock my ring to get back to Philadelphia."
And Christopher Lloyd plays him in this film.
The catcher giving Dickie encouragement was the man that cut the guy playing Dickie’s throat the year before in Matewan. Gordon Clapp was a brutal agent with the coal mining company and Jace Alexander was a striking worker caught stealing coal for heat.
1:13 Don Harvey as SS Charles "Swede" Risberg. Harvey is known to be the henchman of Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) in Die Hard 2.
Alexandre Bertrand-Lafleur, check out his performance in Casualties Of War. He played Corporal Thomas E. Clark. The film stars Michael J. Fox, and Sean Penn. It came out in '88, or '89. It's a good movie, but very depressing.
I don't like this movie, very hard about Vietnam War!
Yeah he’s really good at playing sleazy bad guys. Btw, he was also in The Untouchables. He played the deputy who sits next to Kevin Costner in the police car.
That pretty much is his acting career
2 yrs.later Comiskey had Landis ban Kerr over a salary dispute...a great game with a slimey underbelly
Daniel Linehan That was the era management held all the cards back then. Now it has swung completely the other way in the era of Free Agency and Guaranteed Contracts.
I also read that it was also because he played semipro with some of the banned ballplayers, Comiskey and Landis couldn't have been happy about that. But yes, the money issue was
definitely the reason Kerr ended up getting suspended himself (though not for life like the infamous eight).
They have him as a right handed pitcher when in fact he was left handed
That's Jane Alexander's son as Dickie. Dustin Hoffman's female friend in Kramer vs. Kramer.
Jane Alexander, great actor and H.O.T
Dickie Kerr was actually a left handed pitcher
Had to check Baseball Reference and you were right! Now, I'm annoyed because "Field of Dreams" had Joe Jackson batting right-handed and "Eight Men Out" had Dickey Kerr pitching right-handed. I gave "Field of Dreams" a pass because it's fantasy - but come on! "Eight Men Out" is historical. Of course, if I were a true-blue baseball fan, I would have learned about this error decades ago. Still, it's a classic movie.
Oh, thank you!
They could have reversed the film like in "Pride of the Yankees" but that would have meant sewing his jersey lettering on the other side. Too much trouble, I guess.
@@cedricgist7614 - also transcripts from the trial read that the players’ own greed not the low pay from Come was actually a deciding factor for the fix.
But Hollywood has been distorting the truth, taking creative liberties, since 1920.
@@cedricgist7614 And Jackson had a southern accent, Field of Dreams got Jackson completely wrong.
Dickey Kerr was actually a very seasoned minor league left hander. Tiny, like Cicotte and Williams, 5’ 9”, tops.. Reds had much deeper pitching than White Sox, as Faber unavailable due to lasting effects of Spanish Flu pandemic. Fun movie, but recent facts update some elements. Important to remember that “clean Sox” hit very poorly in series, testament to Reds’ pitching.
0:45 Charlie Sheen as outfielder Oscar "Hap" Felsch.
One of the reasons I went to see this in theaters is because he was in it. He had maybe 2 minutes of screen time with a line here and there. An ensemble cast and he was on the low end of it.
What style of music is this cuz I like it
It’s called Ragtime music which was a type of jazz in the early 20th Century.
Also, checkout the movie “Tucker: Man and his Dream”. Great movie about a 1940’s car designer/CEO. There’s alot of Ragtime music in that as well.
@@coolcat6303 thanks
Right Hahah it’s very catchy it makes this a feel-good movie
Our pitchers know howta hit. NL stands for no loosers.
NL has only one 50 out of 115 World Series, even though it came first it’s hard to say it’s better than the American League cuz the stats say otherwise
@@jmentone yea mostly because of the Yankees. Take them out of the equation and it would be practically even lol
Kerr was excellent that day, but not like he was whiffing everyone. He struck out four in a three-hit, complete-game effort.
And yeah, as others noted, he was a lefty.
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