VTG Roy Hobbs Get Old Stop Playing Quote The Natural Baseball T Shirt XL

Description: Here's a size XL (Fruit Of The Loom 90% Cotton 10% Polyester) Roy Hobbs Quote The Natural T Shirt....(measures approx. 23.5 across by 31.5 length).....pre-owned in very good shape overall......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. The story mostly concerns his attempts to return to baseball later in life, when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his self-made bat "Wonderboy". 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. Apart from the fact that both Waitkus and fictional Hobbs were shot by women, there are few if any other similarities. It has been alternately suggested by historian Thomas Wolf that the shooting incident might have been inspired by Chicago Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges, who was shot by a showgirl with whom he was romantically linked, but there has been no evidence to support this claim. A film adaptation, The Natural, starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, was released in 1984.

Price: 29.99 USD

Location: Blissfield, Michigan

End Time: 2024-10-31T00:59:15.000Z

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