CryptoSoxery No. 5

For which we travel to Hollywood

Until now, all CryptoSoxery cryptogram quizzes have been real quotes for or about the White Sox or their players or other personnel. This time the quote — a dialogue, actually — is from a piece of fiction.

But first, the answer to last week's encryption,  which showed Tommy John is not just another pretty elbow:

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did — but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

One of these two had a pretty good fastball

John was, of course, referring to his trip under the knife for the now-renowned surgery that bears his name. That surgery was in 1974, but this week we're going back even further — or maybe forward a bit, depending how you look at it.

CryptoSoxery No. 5 is actually a short dialogue, and a fictional one, though with a solid factual basis. It comes from the 1988 movie Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Black Sox — and though very brief, it's a dialogue that explains a lot. A usual, thanks to the encryption template at wordles.com.

PWNKJ PMZZCHDL: ANM PDA ANM QDL BCLI PYHYL UYL NL JGY TYPJ

QZMT JGDJ YHYK JNNF JGY BCYZI SCZZCL' JN JGKNS JGY SNKZI PYKCYP?

C BCLI *JGDJ* GDKI JN TYZCYHY.

QGCQF RDLICZ: ANM LYHYK WZDAYI BNK QGDKZCY QNUCPFYA.

For those who have never done a cryptoquote, the procedure is easy — a letter in the puzzle equates to a different letter, the same one all the way through. I'll be generous and tell you in this one, a G equals an H.

The way to solve the cipher is to go by how English works ... an "e" is the most common letter, a single letter is probably an "a" or "I," and so on.

Go ahead and give it a try. Let's face it — you're not doing much of anything else now, anyway. The answer, and a new CryptoSoxery, next week.

Past puzzles:
CryptoSoxery No. 1: Jean Shepherd
CryptoSoxery No. 2: Barack Obama
CryptoSoxery No. 3: Al Lopez
CryptoSoxery No. 4: Tommy John