Moonlight Graham, a character in the film Field of Dreams and Shoeless Joe, the novel it was based on, was real. He really did appear in one major league game. His birthday was yesterday.
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham was born this day in 1876 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/mGlhpFBGFb
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 12, 2021
Moonlight Graham was born this day in 1877. Here's the box score from his lone career game in the Majors (from Chicago Tribune – 6/30/1905) pic.twitter.com/f23PDcLszG
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) November 12, 2021
#OTD in 1876, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham was born in Fayetteville, NC. Here’s a color study of him with the New York Giants in 1905. pic.twitter.com/FR5V1ECekm
— Graig Kreindler (@GraigKreindler) November 12, 2021
Moonlight Graham, one of baseball history’s most unassuming legends, graduated from medical school in Baltimore in 1905.
— Hayes Gardner (@HayesGardner) July 5, 2022
His letters and four signatures from that time were recently discovered. “There was that tingling feeling.”
Today’s @BaltimoreSun:https://t.co/zXIzHbqDhQ pic.twitter.com/FGIeFMXJVY
#OTD in 1965, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham passed away at the age of 88. Here’s a color study of the great man with the New York Giants in 1905. pic.twitter.com/2SvaI1H8hq
— Graig Kreindler (@GraigKreindler) August 25, 2022
Yearbook autographed by ‘Moonlight’ Graham, ballplayer who attended medical school in Baltimore, fetching thousands at auction https://t.co/bcVv8ING5G
— Baltimore Sun Health (@BaltSunHealth) July 11, 2023
Sad! 