Moonlight Graham

A movie that might have inspired us all and gave Kevin Costner one good film to his credit was "Field Of Dreams". I have taken the pilgrimage out to that field. It's nothing much to look at. The baseball field is actually on two separate pieces of land, so there are two shops to buy from, from the two families that own the land. That kind of took away from the whole mystique of the baseball field, but I did walk through the corn field, and subsequently ended up in heaven but was kicked out shortly. In the movie Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones go up to the iron range in MN. There they look for Archie Graham.

At first they find this old doctor, Doc Graham. As they return to Iowa they meet up with Doc Graham as a kid on the side of the road hitch hiking, then he gets to play baseball again, yada yada yada.

Anyway, today the Twins honor Doc Graham for his one game stint in major league baseball. I think it's a great accomplishment. I think anyone who is a fan of baseball would like to say they have been in the majors, if only for one game or one at bat. One of my friends Dad was from Chisholm, MN and had Doc Graham as his well, as his Doctor. He never knew though of his baseball career until the movie came out in '87. -related link