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- Dana Hanson-Firestone
- 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 player with a gun. This inspired Bernard Malamud to write a book about it in 1952.
- The woman who committed the crime disappeared. For many years, the woman who committed the crime of shooting the ball player seemed to disappear off the radar.
- Steinhagen was a teenager at the time. At the time of the shooting, Ruth Ann Steinhagen was only 19 years old. This seemed to be a senseless shooting, but as investigators dug a little deeper they discovered that she had developed a crush o teh first baseman Eddie Waitkus of the Chicago Cubs.
- Steinhagen invited the player to her hotel room. Ruth reserved a hotel room near Wrigley field and wrote a note to Waitkus telling him that she had something important to share with him.
Jun 15, 2016 · At first, 19-year-old Ruth Ann Steinhagen’s obsession with Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus was your typical intense teenage infatuation—she had a little shrine to Waitkus in her...
- Stacy Conradt
“The Natural” could have been a decent movie. One reason that it is not: Of all its characters, the only one we don’t want to know more about is Roy Hobbs. I’d love to get to know Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), the cynical, old team manager.
Redford is perfectly cast as the wary, guarded Hobbs. The female characters leave behind a bad taste, however, since they schematically and simplistically stand for the archaic angel-whore...
The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth.
Apr 8, 2019 · The Natural is a story of a gifted baseball player, Roy Hobbs, who after having lost his prime years from being shot by a deranged woman, arrives in New York to play for Pop Fisher’s Knights. Roy is very talented–a natural at baseball–yet also very flawed.
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On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey).
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- Drama
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