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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.
In 1910s Nebraska, a young Roy Hobbs learns to play baseball from his father. After Hobbs Sr. suffers an early, fatal heart attack, lightning strikes the large tree next to where he died. Hobbs makes a baseball bat from the tree's splintered wood, burning a lightning bolt and the legend “Wonderboy” into the barrel of the new bat.
Movie line: “They would've said, ‘There goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game,’” Robert Redford's character, Roy Hobbs, lamented of his shortened career. In many ways ...
Roy Hobbs may refer to: Roy Hobbs (baseball), protagonist of The Natural, a 1952 novel about baseball; Roy Hobbs (tennis), Singaporean tennis player
Most people are only familiar with the Roy Hobbs of the movie, portrayed by Robert Redford, as oppossed to the Roy Hobbs of the book, who is much more flawed. In the movie Hobbs chooses Iris over Memo and chooses to "swing away" rather than counter-offer the Judge, whereas the Hobbs of the novel does the latter in both instances.
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The 1952 novel The Natural by Bernard Malamud (and the 1984 movie) are structured around the basic legend. Pop Fisher is the Fisher King and Roy Hobbs the Percival figure. Pop Fisher is the Fisher King and Roy Hobbs the Percival figure.