<P> The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud , and is his debut novel . The story follows Roy Hobbs , a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious . Whether she is acting alone or is part of a plot can be debated . Most of the story concerns itself with his attempts to return to baseball later in life , when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his legendary bat `` Wonderboy '' . </P>
<P> The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud , and is his debut novel . The story follows Roy Hobbs , a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious . Whether she is acting alone or is part of a plot can be debated . Most of the story concerns itself with his attempts to return to baseball later in life , when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his legendary bat `` Wonderboy '' . </P>
what happened to roy hobbs after he was shot
what happened to roy hobbs after he was shot
attempts to return to baseball later in life , when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his legendary bat `` Wonderboy ''
attempts to return to baseball later in life , when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his legendary bat `` Wonderboy ''