He dies a few days later. Based upon the bizarre shooting incident and subsequent comeback of Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus, the story of Roy Hobbs takes some poetic license and embellishes what was truly a strange, but memorable, account of a career lost too soon.
McCray made it back up to the White Sox later that year, but was used almost exclusively as a pinch runner and backup outfielder. He was out of the game for sixteen years, got back in with the Heeber Oilers, a semi-pro team, and said he played in high school before that.
New York Knights, a fictional baseball team in the novel and film The Natural. All in all, Hobbs came up times in September. He hit. He scored 61 runs in the 34 games. His father, William, had played some semi-professional baseball before settling on a farm; Billy Hobbs desperately wanted his son to become a Major League player. Roy Hobbs. The tragic hero of The Natural.
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Harriet is a mysterious, attractive woman Hobbs encounters on the train to Chicago. Though she hardly gives him the time of day at first, she seems impressed by his prowess in the competition against the Whammer , which she witnesses.
Hobbs is intrigued by her beauty and odd, rambling commentary, and when she suggests he meets her at her hotel in Chicago, he does so willingly. Harrowingly enough, back in , another luckless Cub -- shortstop Billy Jurges -- was shot by a smitten paramour , this time in Room of the Hotel Carlos. In this instance, the flintlock wielder was one Violet Valli to be fair, a name like that might have condemned her to madness from the start.
To hear Ms. Valli tell it, it was all the fault of lamewad Kiki Cuyler, whom, she believed, persuaded Jurges to dump her. Understated headline from the day Pittsburgh Press :. In the case of the lovely and talented Ms. Valli, a dancer by training, Jurges declined to prosecute, and Valli leveraged her infamy into a vaudeville show that ran for 22 weeks. Also, individually interact with us on Twitter: MattSnyder27 , daynperry and mikeaxisa.
By Dayn Perry. Mar 15, at am ET 2 min read. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. This bird isn't around for long, but she makes quite the impact on our poor hero's life. Harriet's the nutcase behind this headline:. For some reason which we never find out, Harriet is a serial killer who targets very successful athletes.
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