I've seen the movie Field of Dreams, and in one scene a player named Moonlight Grahm plays. Someone told me that he actually existed, but i don't believe him. Is he right?
2007-08-06 07:22:39 · 4 answers · asked by supersurfer177 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
He is listed in BaseballReference.com
One career at bat is his only statistic for 1905 NY Giants
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grahamo01.shtml
2007-08-06 07:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, he did exist. Just like in the movie, Moonlight Graham played with the N.Y. Giants for one game in the outfield, and never got up to bat. . . .
2007-08-06 15:11:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did. An author noticed his stat, one appearance in a game, and incorporated him into a fiction novel, Shoeless Joe, which was later adapted into the movie Field of Dreams.
2007-08-06 14:29:35 · answer #3 · answered by Sam S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, he was real, although the film version "revised" some of the facts regarding his cuppa-coffee career, for dramatic purposes.
There was a really good article in 2005 on the 100th anniversary of his one game... I'll see it I can dig it up.
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Edit: not the article I remember from two years ago, but still pretty good, with a couple of accurate notes about Graham's game. http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050629&content_id=1108281&vkey=news_min&fext=.jsp&c_id=min
2007-08-06 16:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋