movie Field of Dreams was based. Much of the description of Graham's life in the novel came from the people of Chisholm as Kinsella visited seeking information on him. In the novel, the dates of Graham's big-league appearance and death are kept as in real life, making the 1905 appearance 74 years prior to the book's 1979 timeframe, and the Ray Kinsella character quickly finds out that Graham has been dead since 1965. The time-travel scene has Kinsella meeting Graham in 1955, ten years prior to Graham's death. In the movie, the Fenway Park scoreboard shows Graham's appearance as having taken place in 1922, 66 years prior to the film's 1988 time frame. A woman in Chisholm, a long-time friend of Graham's who wrote his obituary in the newspaper on the day of his death, later tells Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) and author Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones) that Graham had died in 1972. In the time-travel sequence of the movie, lead character Ray Kinsella goes back to the year of Graham's death, and is told by "Doc" Graham (Burt Lancaster) that his appearance was on the final day of the season, rather than the middle. Also from the movie, Graham does not play professional baseball at all after his one appearance in the major leagues. In real life, Graham played three additional seasons in the minor leagues (1906 through 1908) after the one major league game that he played in 1905. In the film, Graham, played by Whaley, is seen batting right-handed, but he in fact batted left-handed. References "A Career as 'Quick as a Flash of Moonlight'" – article in The New York Times, June 26, 2005, section 8, p. 3 Further reading Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams' Doc Graham External links Moonlight Graham at Baseball Library Graham Scholarship Fund 100th Anniversary of Moonlight Graham's Only Game 1876 births 1965 deaths Sportspeople from Fayetteville, North Carolina Physicians from North Carolina Baseball players from North Carolina Major League Baseball right fielders New York Giants (NL) players North Carolina Tar Heels baseball players University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni Charlotte Hornets (baseball) players Lowell Tigers players Manchester (minor league baseball) players Nashua (minor league baseball) players Binghamton Bingoes players Scranton Miners players Memphis Egyptians players Burials in Minnesota