Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams' Doc Graham - Hardcover

Friedlander, Brett; Reising, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895873699 ISBN 13: 9780895873699

Publisher: Blair, 2009

Synopsis

Late on the afternoon of June 29, 1905, Archibald Graham bolted out of the New York Giants' dugout and took his position in right field for the first and only time as a major league baseball player. He played only and inning and a half. The Giants made their last out as Graham waited in the on-deck circle. The 27-year-old journeyman, who was affectionately known as Moonlight because of his off-season occupation as a medical student, was sent back to the minors and, presumably, into permanent obscurity.In the mid-1980s, nearly 20 years after Graham's death, author W. P. Kinsella stumbled across a line entry in the Baseball Encyclopedia while he was researching a book about Shoeless Joe Jackson. It was the name Moonlight Graham that first caught Kinsella's attention, but the fact that Graham never got to bat in the majors made him even more interesting to the fiction writer. Graham became a secondary character in Kinsella's book, Shoeless Joe.In 1989, Hollywood director and screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson decided that Graham deserved a larger audience. In Robinson's cinematic classic, Field of Dreams, Academy Award winning actor Burt Lancaster played Doc Graham in what would be his final screen appearance. The once little-known country doctor from Chisholm, Minnesota, became an international icon. More than a million people have since traveled to the corn-framed movie set in hopes that some of Graham's baseball magic might be channeled into their own lives

Edition details

• Publisher: Blair
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895873699
• ISBN 13: 9780895873699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220