Jan 1, 2010
Roy Hobbs, a major league baseball player. Beginning as a white-faced, long-boned pitcher one year out of the Northwest High School League, he is a naïve rustic. Armed with Wonderboy (his bat carved from a lightning-blasted tree) and a fastball, he strikes out the American League batting champion. Proclaiming with hubris that he wants to be “the best there ever was in the game,” he is wounded by a gun- toting woman. Fifteen year later, now tall, husky, and dark- bearded, Hobbs is brought up from the semipros by the New York Knights. Literally knocking...
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