The Natural is a 1984 American sports drama film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Kim Basinger. The film follows Roy Hobbs, an unknown middle-aged baseball player who defies the odds to become a legendary baseball
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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 after he is 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 the bat he made, "Wonderboy."