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Roy Hobbs, fictional character, the ambitious and talented but flawed baseball player who is the protagonist of The Natural (1952), the first novel by American writer Bernard Malamud. The character was portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1984 film version of the novel.

ing to Wikipedia, Author Malamud, supposedly not a baseball fan himself, created “the Natural” story and his Roy Hobbs character from the real life of Eddie Waitkus, a major leaguer in 1941 and 1946-55.

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The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked after being shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious. The story mostly concerns his attempts to return to baseball later in life, when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his self-made bat "Wonderboy".

Roy Hobbs, fictional character, the ambitious and talented but flawed baseball player who is the protagonist of The Natural (1952), the first novel by American writer Bernard Malamud. The character was portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1984 film version of the novel.

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Roy Hobbs World Series Playing Fields Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway, Fort Myers, 33912. (For travel between playing sites to the north, however, use the rear entrance of the Lee County Sports Complex on Plantation Blvd., across the street from South Fort Myers High School.) Parking: All open lots.

In what Robert Redford has said was a nod to Ted Williams, Hobbs wore No. 9 for the Knights in the movie. Hobbs wore No. 45 in the book.