Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: June 29, 1905
RAY KINSELLA: Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... you came this close. It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" is one of the most imaginative stories ever written, and certainly the film adaptation Field of Dreams is the best film having anything to do with baseball. And it was 100 years ago today that Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, who for years remained a statistical nobody in the Baseball Encyclopedia, played two innings in the field for the New York Giants, unknowingly starting--and ending--a career that would wind up making him a character in an Oscar-nominated film.
"MOONLIGHT" GRAHAM: Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.
I believe a viewing of Field of Dreams is in order tonight.
