Moonlight Graham

"Moonlight" Graham
Graham in 1905
Right fielder
Born: (1876-11-12)November 12, 1876
Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died: August 25, 1965(1965-08-25) (aged 88)
Chisholm, Minnesota, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 29, 1905, for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
June 29, 1905, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Games played1
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Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1876 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and medical 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.