"But some people said it was because he moonlighted as a doctor." "I think it was because by the light of the moon, he practiced his game," she guessed. He arrived around 1912 after the town placed a newspaper ad for a school doctor, and Ponikvar said he never boasted about his ballplaying. Veda Ponikvar knew Graham for 43 years in Chisholm, Minn. Seeking one at-bat in the bigs, he asks: "Is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make dreams come true?" In the movie, Graham mystically flickers onto the scoreboard at Fenway Park. "I didn't anticipate this happening," Kinsella said from his home in British Columbia. His 1982 novel "Shoeless Joe" was adapted into the 1989 film "Field of Dreams," and Moonlight was reborn.Įventually, there was a band called Moonlight Graham, a couple of Web sites were dedicated to him and a scholarship fund established in his honor. I was intrigued, and I made a note that I intended to write something about him," he said.Ī few years later, he did.
How could anyone come up with that nickname? He played one game but did not get to bat. "I found this entry for Moonlight Graham. Among the listings for every player and their lifetime stats, Kinsella came across something that stopped him. More than a decade after Graham died in 1965, the prize-winning author was leafing through the Baseball Encyclopedia that his father-in-law had given him for Christmas a few days earlier. Kinsella to make Graham such a part of the poetry and romance that celebrate the lore and lure of baseball. No wonder it took quite a while for his story to get around - and for author W.P. And, just that fast, the 28-year-old rookie described in the sporting press as being "quick as a flash of moonlight" was gone. "Graham went to right field for New York" was his only mention in the local Evening Telegram's play-by-play account. A late substitute in a lopsided 11-1 win, he played only two innings and there's no proof he ever touched the ball. Because on Jexactly 100 years ago on Wednesday - Archibald Wright Graham made his lone appearance in the majors. Yet the tale is true, at least most of it. "That was a real thing? How come nobody told me?" "'Field of Dreams' was before my time," said Willie Mays, the greatest Giant of them all. Yet many folks are certain Moonlight Graham was a made-up character from a movie, not a real-life ballplayer for the New York Giants.
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He stood out there on a summer afternoon so long ago, on a patch of grass since paved over in Brooklyn. His big league career lasted all of one game, a few fleeting moments in right field.
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Graham played in one game for the 1905 World Series Champions New York Giants on June 29, 1905.
"Moonlight" Graham rookie card obverse, left, and reverse, right, are displayed. In this handout released by the Doc Graham Memorial Scholarship Fund, an A.W.
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