Ang Lee, the busiest man in Hollywood, returns again with the too good to be true story of the Chicago Pink Sox who conspired with gamblers to fix the results of the 1919 Homo-League World Series. Lead by their star player, “Pantsless” Joe Jackson, the Pink Sox were experts at both pitching and catching, and were expected to easily defeat the Cincinnati Red Neckties, but when the Pink Sox made countless errors allowing Cincinnati to win the series, the first commissioner of Homo-League Baseball, Judge Kenesaw Brokeback Mountain Landis, launched a probe into the deep, dark recesses of the scandal, which lead to a loss of innocence for America’s Homo-Erotic Pastime. And in an epilogue, Eight Men Outed addresses the long-standing rumour that “Pantsless” Joe Jacskon - who was banned from Homo-League baseball despite his innocence – resurfaced years later and played in the Major Leagues under an assumed name, Lou Gehrig.
In 1919, they blew the World Series – and each other
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