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Nineteen-year-old Roy Hobbs is traveling by train to Chicago with his manager Sam to try out for the Chicago Cubs.Other passengers include sportswriter Max Mercy; Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the leading hitter in the American League and three-time American League Most Valuable Player (based on Babe Ruth); and Harriet Bird, a beautiful and mysterious woman.
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.
Roy Hobbs may refer to: Roy Hobbs (baseball), protagonist of The Natural, a 1952 novel about baseball; Roy Hobbs (tennis), Singaporean tennis player
Released in 1984, The Natural stars Redford as Roy Hobbs, a middle-aged baseball phenom who singlehandedly turns his team's fortunes around. Close earned her third of eight career Oscar ...
The 1984 sports drama famously starred Redford, 88, as Roy Hobbs, a middle-aged baseball player who seemingly comes out of nowhere to become a legendary batter. Close played his girlfriend Iris ...
Roy Hobbs Baseball, an over 30 amateur, adult men's baseball organization, headquartered out of Ft. Myers, FL, with national and international Leagues and Teams.
In the 1984 movie "The Natural," Redford played Roy Hobbs, a young baseball player with a "natural" talent for the game. Hobbs' career is derailed after he is inexplicably shot by a disturbed ...
AL Rookie of the Year (1980) Joseph Charboneau (born June 17, 1955) ... he was an extra in the film The Natural, playing one of Roy Hobbs' teammates.) ...