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    Who was the baseball player whose life story furnished the major plot of Bernard Malamud's novel "The Natural"?

    Question #48344. Asked by yeaux. (Jun 12 04 7:21 PM)


    robboy

    Eddie Waitkus, 1919-1972. Perennial 1st baseman for Cubs and Phillies, mostly.

    Jun 12 04, 8:26 PM
    hellohowareyou

    It should have been Roy Hobbs, to make robboysh.
    http://www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/utxt0304d.html

    Jun 13 04, 12:37 AM


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