They also talked about Graham’s impeccable character, he said. Pitrof says finding the letters clearly shows Graham’s dedication to both medicine and baseball. Prior to discovery, as few as five or six known Graham signatures existed.
They include enrollment cards signed by Graham, $30 he owed to college, a request for a dean’s recommendation for an internship, and questions about a training position at a Baltimore medical center.Īfter:How can MLB and FOX Sports dominate last year’s Field of Dreams game? A glimpse of their plan The dozen letters from Graham, discovered by Pitrof, span from 1903 to 1905, the years Graham attended medical school in Baltimore while pursuing his baseball career during the summers.
When he finally did, “it was like being punched in the face by something that had been begging me to open up for years,” he said. He had often thought about going through the documents himself, but he kept putting it off. Pitof told the Des Moines Register that he made the bold assumption that someone had gone through the files when they were turned over to the alumni association for safekeeping. The film transcends sport by harnessing the universal emotional resonance of a son’s simple desire to be reunited with his late father – a motivation embraced by millions around the world. Graham was lifted from obscurity by author WP Kinsella, whose book “Shoeless Joe” became the inspiration for “Field of Dreams.” The film is about an obsessed farmer, Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, who plows under a cornfield to build a baseball diamond after a disembodied voice whispers the request in his ear.Īfter:Despite Peacock rejection, construction moves forward at ‘Field of Dreams’ ballpark near Polk City He was a New York giant for a day in 1905 before becoming an enduring civic giant in the Lilliputian village of Chisholm, Minnesota, where he was the beloved town doctor for decades after swapping his bat and his glove against a stethoscope and a black bag. The story was first shared by The Baltimore Sun.
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1900.Īfter the first Major League Baseball game played between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, Iowa last summer, Pitrof searched the attic cabinets from the fourth floor of the school and discovered two years worth of correspondence between Graham and the dean of the university.
Medical Alumni Association and baseball fanatic, always had a hunch he might find some trace of Graham, who attended medical school in the early 1980s. Larry Pitrof, executive director of the University of Maryland, Inc. A director of a University of Baltimore alumni association came across a pile of letters signed by baseball player and physician Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, featured in “Field of Dreams,” in the depths of the attic of the University.
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