the natural

     

The 1949 shooting of Philly 1B Eddie Waitkus by Ruth Steinhagen inspired this novel, later a 1984 film

Trivia about the natural

  • Baseball player Roy Hobbs
  • The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights
  • 1984:An overaged baseball player comes out of nowhere to become a legendary player
  • Max Mercy,Harriet Bird,Roy Hobbs
  • Roy gets shot on the way to a Cubs tryout. Roy turns the Knights around. Wonderboy breaks, Roy fails
  • Much of this Robert Redford film was shot at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, New York
  • This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time
  • Pop Fisher gambles/ Hobbs spurs on the New York Knights/ Wonderboy--kaput
  • 1952: "When I walk down the street I bet people will say there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in the game"

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