5/19/2023 0 Comments The natural malamud![]() ![]() He accepts and visits her, but upon entering the room, she shoots him in the chest with a silver bullet from a pistol. Hobbs makes it to Chicago, where he receives a call from Harriet inviting him to her hotel room. Sam is accidentally hit in the stomach during the competition weakened, he dies shortly thereafter, insisting that Hobbs continue on with his travels. Though apparently outmatched, Hobbs wins the competition, attracting the attention of both a conniving journalist, Max Mercy, and a mysterious, striking young woman also traveling on the train, Harriet Bird. ![]() On the train, Hobbs and Sam encounter Walter “The Whammer” Whambold, a well-known baseball star, and when the train makes a stop at a carnival, Sam organizes a pitching and hitting competition between Hobbs and the Whammer. Roy Hobbs, a nineteen-year-old baseball prodigy, is traveling to Chicago with the scout who discovered him, Sam Simpson, to try out for the Chicago Cubs. ![]()
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