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Overview

Late on the afternoon of June 29, 1905, Archibald Graham bolted out of the New York Giants' dugout and took his position in right field for the first and only time as a major league baseball player. He played only and inning and a half. The Giants made their last out as Graham waited in the on-deck circle. The 27-year-old journeyman, who was affectionately known as "Moonlight" because of his off-season occupation as a medical student, was sent back to the minors and, presumably, into permanent obscurity.

In the mid-1980s, nearly 20 years after Graham's death, author W. P. Kinsella stumbled across a single line entry in the Baseball Encyclopedia while he was researching a book about Shoeless Joe Jackson. It was the name Moonlight Graham that first caught Kinsella's attention, but the fact that Graham never got to bat in the majors made him even more interesting to a fiction writer. Graham became a secondary character in Kinsella's book Shoeless Joe.

In 1989, Hollywood director and screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson decided that Graham deserved a larger audience. In Robinson's cinematic classic, Field of Dreams, Academy Award-winning actor Burt Lancaster played Doc Graham in what would be his final screen appearance. The once little-known country doctor from Chisholm, Minnesota, became an international icon, a man whose longing to bat in the majors became a reality on the dream-inspired diamond near the town of Dyersville, Iowa. More than a million people have since traveled to the corn-framed movie set in hopes that some of Graham's baseball magic might be channeled into their own lives. He became so well known as a ballplayer that a film crew travelled from Tokyo, Japan, to do a documentary about him and a California company trademarked his name for its line of baseball-themed apparel.

But what's the real story of Moonlight Graham? Why did a quiet North Carolina native, whose family was well known throughout the state, spend the bulk of his adult life in an isolated Iron Range community not far from the Canadian border?

In Chasing Moonlight, the authors follow Graham's life from his youth spent with his younger brother, Frank Porter Graham, who became the president of the University of North Carolina and a U.S. Senator; through his career as a medical student in Baltimore and New York while he played baseball at the same time; through his minor league successes in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In Graham's Minnesota years, the authors reveal a man whose pioneering research on children's blood pressure is still used at institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and whose quiet philanthropy made him beloved in his community.

Although the line between fact and fiction has been blurred with respect to the events of Graham's life, Chasing Moonlight shows that the real Moonlight Graham was just as iconic and endearing as the fictional character.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780895873699
  • Publisher: Blair, John F. Publisher
  • Publication date: 4/28/2009
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 743,438
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Brett Friedlander has spent 25 years as a professional writer, earning 22 national, regional, and state awards. His honors include a 2007 N.C. Press Association Award in the sports feature category for two chapters from Chasing Moonlight. He is a reporter for the Wilmington Star-News and lives in Fayeteville, NC.

Robert Reising starred as a catcher on Michigan State University's 1954 Big Ten Conference championship team. He went on to become the head baseball coach at Duke and Furman universities and the University of South Carolina. As a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, he became the world's foremost scholar on Jim Thorpe. He is currently a professor of English at the University of the Cumberlands. He lives in Williamsburg, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Chasing Moonlight 3

Ch. 1 The Beginnings: Books and Balls 11

Ch. 2 Moonlighting: The Minor League Years 28

Ch. 3 Fifteen Minutes in the Sun: The Big Game 43

Ch. 4 Majoring in the Minors: A Giant in Scranton 53

Ch. 5 Crossroads: Is There a Doctor in the House? 73

Ch. 6 Northern Exposure: "I Am Here. I Am Your Doctor" 89

Ch. 7 Miss Flower: The Doctor Takes a Wife 104

Ch. 8 Chisholm's Guardian: Caring and Compassion for All 123

Ch. 9 Uncuffed: The Big Leagues of Medical Research 137

Ch. 10 Weird Science: Chewed Paper, Uncashed Checks, and the Search for Perpetual Motion 145

Ch. 11 After School: A Public Servant to the End 159

Ch. 12 Fact, Film, and Fantasy 177

Appendix 1 Career Statistics of Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham 196

Appendix 2 1905 New York Giants Statistics 197

Appendix 3 Standings and League Leaders from Graham's Minor League Seasons 199

Appendix 4 Field of Dreams: Film vs. Fact 205

Index 214

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  • Posted June 3, 2011

    An extraordinarily ordinary person

    As anyone may expect, I picked up this book in order to learn about Doctor Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, the mythical character from one of the best, if not THE best, sports movies of all time: Field of Dreams. He was brilliantly played by Burt Lancaster.

    The authors describe in detail Moonlight's cup of coffee in the Major Leagues. His two innings in right field for John McGraw's Giants in June 29, 1905. How he never had the chance to take an at-bat. Then, back to the minors and a lifetime practicing medicine in the small town of Chisholm, Minnesota.

    Sounds romantic, doesn't it? But this is as interesting as the book gets. Doc Graham was an extraordinarily ordinary person. Yes, he dedicated his life to taking care of the health of the thousands of kids that passed through the Chisholm education system during five decades and he was a beloved citizen of his community. And yes, he passed the opportunity to make the big bucks both in the medical and the athletic professions, but beyond that, his only claims to fame are "Field of Dreams" and a one published medical paper on blood pressure in children.

    There are hundreds of other players that played only one game at the major league level, There are tens of thousands of doctors that dedicated themselves to the care of kids. There are millions of beloved citizens in different communities throughout the world. They just weren't immortalized in a great movie because they were not the ones that writer WP Kinsella bumped into while flipping pages on The Baseball Encyclopedia, and that's why we don't read biographies about them.

    I am not saying this is a bad book. It is a good book about an extremely average person. A lot of myths that we may take as facts from Field of Dream are debunked in rapid succession, but an episode of Mythbusters would have been more entertaining.

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  • Posted March 25, 2009

    Nice Job

    Brett has proven over and over again that he is a capable writer. It is nice to see a book written by Brett. I recommend "Chasing Moonlight" to any sports fan or anybody who likes a good old fashioned top notch story.
    -Fourns

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