Eight Men Out (1988) Cast & Crew

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Directed by John Sayles.

Cast

• John Cusack as Buck Weaver
• Clifton James as Charles Comiskey
• Michael Lerner as Arnold Rothstein
• Christopher Lloyd as Bill Burns
• John Mahoney as Kid Gleason
• Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch
• David Strathairn as Eddie Cicotte
• D. B. Sweeney as 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
• Don Harvey as Swede Risberg
• Michael Rooker as Chick Gandil
• Perry Lang as Fred McMullin
• James Read as Lefty Williams
• Jace Alexander as Dickie Kerr
• Gordon Clapp as Ray Schalk
• Richard Edson as Billy Maharg
• Bill Irwin as Eddie Collins
• Michael Mantell as Abe Attell
• Kevin Tighe as Sport Sullivan
• Studs Terkel as Hugh Fullerton
• John Anderson as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• James Desmond as Smitty
• John Sayles as Ring Lardner
• Eliot Asinof as Heydler
• Clyde Bassett as Ban Johnson
• John D. Craig as Rothstein's Lawyer
• Michael Laskin as Austrian
• Randle Mell as Ahern
• Robert Motz as D.A.
• Bill Raymond as Ben Short
• Barbara Garrick as Helen Weaver
• Wendy Makkena as Kate Jackson
• Maggie Renzi as Rose Cicotte
• Nancy Travis as Lyra Williams
• Brad Garrett as Peewee
• Tay Strathairn as Bucky
• Jesse Vincent as Scooter
• Jack George as Fan
• Tom Surber as Fan
• Tom Ledcke as Fan
• David Carpenter as Fan

Crew

• Robert Richardson — Director of Photography
• Mason Daring — Original Music Composer
• John Sayles — Director
• Eliot Asinof — Novel
• John Sayles — Writer
• Sarah Pillsbury — Producer
• Midge Sanford — Producer

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