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.

• Orion Pictures
• Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
• John Cusack
• Clifton James
• Michael Lerner
• Christopher Lloyd
• John Mahoney
• Charlie Sheen
• David Strathairn
• D. B. Sweeney