The Natural
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title:
The Natural
text:
The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel. The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked after being shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious. The story mostly concerns his attempts to return to baseball later in life, when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his self-made bat "Wonderboy". Based loosely on the shooting incident and subsequent comeback of Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus, t
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Novel by Bernard Malamud
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural
date created:
2004-11-19T13:55:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T07:05:01Z
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