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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.
In the motion picture Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella and Terence Mann go to Chisholm to find Archibald "Moonlight" Graham. Graham, or "Doc" Graham, as the residents of Chisholm called him, did indeed live in Chisholm for 50 years as a doctor following his baseball career. The scenes depicting the town were actually filmed in Galena, Illinois.
Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham or Moonlight Graham (died 1965), US baseball player; Archibald Graham (cricketer) (1917-2000), New Zealand cricketer; Archibald Graham (golfer) in United States Amateur Championship (golf) Archie Graham (rugby union), Namibian player in 2003 Rugby World Cup squads
His older brother, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (December 28, 1879 – August 25, 1965), was a professional baseball player with the New York Giants and later a physician (and the inspiration for a character in the 1989 film Field of Dreams). [4] Alexander Graham Middle School in Charlotte is named for his father.
June 29 – Archibald "Moonlight" Graham made his major league debut with the New York Giants during a game against the host Brooklyn Superbas at Washington Park. For the bottom of the eighth inning, Graham was sent in to play right field, replacing George Browne .
William Montrose Graham, Jr. (1834–1916), Major General in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War; George Hadfield, architect; superintendent of construction for the U.S. Capitol; Archibald Henderson (1783–1859), the longest serving Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
OpEd: “The Moonlight Lady,” Cora Wilson Stewart, was such an inspiration and left an important footprint that I was inspired to buy her a grave marker 65 years after her death.
Another player, Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game on June 29, 1905, but he never had an at bat, nor a fielding play. His unusual story came to the attention of author W. P. Kinsella and was popularized by his novel Shoeless Joe and the subsequent 1988 film Field of Dreams.