Daily Dialogue — December 4, 2018

“People don’t start playing ball at your age, they retire!”

— The Natural (1984), screenplay by Roger Towne and Phil Dusenberry, novel by Bernard Malamud

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coach.

Trivia: In 2001, Bill Simmons from ESPN Magazine compiled Roy Hobbs 1939 rookie season stats, taking cues from the movie, and his line would’ve looked something like this: Games Played -115, At Bats-400, Runs-92, Hits-140, Home Runs-44, Runs Batted In-106 Batting Average-.350. Hobbs struck out eighty-five times, and walked seventy-five times. Roy was thirty-five-years-old in his rookie season.

Dialogue On Dialogue: When Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimely), manager of the cellar dwelling New York Knights first lays eyes on Roy Hobbs, the team’s new right-fielder, he is a little more than skeptical.