Did “Eight Men Out” Portray Eddie Collins Accurately?

“Eight Men Out” was a compelling movie about the gambling scandal that shocked baseball, 1919 Black Sox scandal. We take the Philadelphia angle by looking at how the film portrays former Philadelphia Athletic second baseman, Eddie Collins. Eddie Collins was one of the “Clean Sox,” a member of the White Sox team who did not participate in the scheme. So, how accurate did the movie portray Eddie Collins? Watch and find out.
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Research:

Bruce Allardice, “‘Playing Rotten, It Ain’t That Hard To Do’: How the Black Sox Threw the 1920 Pennant,” SABR Spring 2016 Baseball Research Journal. https://sabr.org/journal/article/playing-rotten-it-aint-that-hard-to-do-how-the-black-sox-threw-the-1920-pennant/.

Eddie Collins’ Ten Commandments. https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2015/10/05/collins-ten-commandments/.

Bill Lamb, The Black Sox Scandal, “Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox” (SABR, 2015), available at https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-black-sox-scandal/.

Paul Mittermeyer, Eddie Collins, “Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox” (SABR, 2015), available at https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/eddie-collins/.

PBS Newshour report on the 100th anniversary of the Black Sox scandal: https://youtu.be/CJLapw_J0-M

SABR, “Eight Myths Out.” https://sabr.org/eight-myths-out.

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