Moonlight Graham
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| Right fielder | |||
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Born: November 12, 1877 Fayetteville, North Carolina |
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Died: August 25, 1965 (aged 87) Chisholm, Minnesota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 29, 1905, for the New York Giants | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 29, 1905, for the New York Giants | |||
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| Games played | 1 | ||
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Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1877 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player, then doctor, who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham.
Graham was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the second of ten children born to Alexander (September 12, 1844 – November 2, 1934) and Katherine B. Sloan Graham (March 8, 1855 – January 1, 1939). His brother, Frank Porter Graham, was president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was later a U. S. Senator. Every one of his brothers and sisters also finished college. He played baseball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was also a member of the Dialectic Society, a debating organization.
Graham went on to play baseball in the minor leagues for seven seasons, starting with the Charlotte Hornets in the Class C North Carolina League in 1902. The following year, he played with Nashua, New Hampshire's team in the Class B New England League. Graham also played for the Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire teams that season, eventually batting .240 in 89 games with seven triples. In 1904, he spent the entire season with Manchester, hitting .272 in 108 games.
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