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Here are the similarities and differences between the heroic Hollywood story of The Natural—the movie player we know—and the actual, forgotten player on whose life it was somewhat based. The movie Natural was named Roy Hobbs. Hobbs was from Nebraska, a young phenom pitcher who had a gift for baseball at an early age.
Though we've seen The Natural many times, we have to confess we didn't know that a real woman shot a real baseball player in 1949 and that their story inspired Bernard Malamud's 1952 book and...
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Jun 26, 2023 · The 1984 film The Natural sees Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs shot by Harriet Bird, a mysterious woman who targets him. We break down Harriet's reasoning. The Natural had quite the surprising twist that saw Harriet Bird shoot Roy Hobbs before his big tryout with the Chicago Cubs.
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The history of Roy Hobbs as a fictional character is interesting since it brings several of our oldest mythological stories to new life. According to Wikipedia, Author Malamud, supposedly not a baseball fan himself, created “the Natural” story and his Roy Hobbs character from the real life of Eddie Waitkus, a major leaguer in 1941 and 1946-55.
Plot. Major characters. References. External links. The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel. The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked after being shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious.
- United States
- Bernard Malamud
- August 21, 1952
- Harcourt Brace and Company
Nov 21, 2017 · Here are 10 things about the movie that you didn’t know. 1. The movie was inspired by a real story. In 1949 a woman who was stalking one of the baseball players in Chicago, actually shot a ...
Major League Murder: The Gruesome True Story That Inspired “The Natural” Mike Murphy. Contributor. Some people like to think that Robert Redford’s character, Roy Hobbs, in the movie, The Natural, was supposed to be inspired by Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams.
