"Moonlight" Graham | |
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Right fielder | |
Born: Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. | November 12, 1876|
Died: August 25, 1965 Chisholm, Minnesota, U.S. | (aged 88)|
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 played | 1 |
Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Teams | |
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.