EIGHT MEN OUT and the Game I Used to Love

We watched John Sayles' movie Eight Men Out last night.  Netflix, of course.  It's an old movie.  It came out in 1988, right around the same time as Field of Dreams, when  hollywood seemed to be in the midst of a mini-obsession with the Shoeless Joe Jackson story.  Hollywood does this -- remember when Tombstone and Wyatt Earp came out within months of each other, after we'd gone years without seeing a movie about Earp?  But I digress....

For those of you who don't know, Eight Men Out tells the st