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unusual facts about Moonlight Graham


Christian Soucy

This effectively renders Soucy as the NHL's comparable version to Major League Baseball's legendary Moonlight Graham.


Bob Scherbarth

Like Moonlight Graham from Field of Dreams fame, Scherbarth was one of many players since 1900 who appeared in a game but never had a plate appearance.

Buddy Hancken

His friend, Bill McCurdy (The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball), responded him with a reference to the popular baseball movie Field of Dreams: "That's OK, Buddy, at least you got your hands on the ball. Moonlight Graham never did".

Eddy Furniss

During his 2012 induction speech, Furniss quoted the character based on Moonlight Graham from Field of Dreams.

Frank Porter Graham

The baseball career of Graham's brother, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, was popularized in the W. P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe and the 1989 film it inspired, Field of Dreams.


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