could be the dumbest question, but I'm confused.?

Question

I thought that Roy Hobbs was a fictional person? But yet when you go to the website there is all kinds of memorabila,
Was he a real ballplayer or not?

Answer 1

Just a character in a book and a movie

Answer 2

No. Roy Hobbs was a character in a book by Bernard Malamud entitled "The Natural". It was later turned into a movie starring Robert Redford. The end of the movie and the end of the book are dramatically different.

Answer 3

There is a "Cleveland Roy Hobbs baseball league" that is totally unrelated to anything in the movie, and that might be what you are seeing. The Robert Redford (Roy Hobbs) character was fictional and there is no relationship to any MLB player that ever played the game.

Answer 4

There's a little bit of Roy Hobbs in every boy who plays baseball. What kid doesn't dream of taking his "Wonderboy" bat up to the plate in the bottom of the 9th, slam one over the wall, and do a homerun trot around the bases as the home-town fans cheer.
Roy Hobbs lives.

Answer 5

He is a character in a book and movie. Just because people will buy stuff does not make that character real. People want junk from Rocky Balboa and others so this is nothing new.

Answer 6

According to Wikipedia, he was a baseball player in a book. The book was turned into a movie. Read about him here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural

Answer 7

Thes people dont know anything/ roy hobbs played for the juneau hula hoopers duh!!!/ he was the quarterback of the baseball team/ his best friend was the center/ he struck out professor moody while he was searching for the sorcerors stone/ wheres harry potter? in book 7, professor moody dies!!! hahahahahahahahahahaha i hated him

Answer 8

NOT