Max Mercy, now a famous journalist, pursues Hobbs, whose past he is determined to uncover (having forgotten their encounter on the train years earlier). Hobbs struggles with his teammates and Judge Banner, who refuses to pay him a better salary, and begins to hit poorly as a result. Hobbs takes over Bump’s position on the team and begins to pursue his grieving girlfriend, Memo Paris. In a subsequent game, Bump, hoping to outdo Hobbs, runs into the outfield wall in an attempt to catch a fly ball, later dying of his injuries. Hobbs is permitted to pinch-hit for Bump during a crucial game, and to the team’s surprise, he performs far better than a rookie, hitting an coveted triple. Hobbs promises Pop and Red that he will help restore the Knights’ reputation by using his “Wonderboy” bat, a bat he carved himself in childhood, to hit impressive home runs.
Additionally, The Knights’ star player, Bump Baily, has become “lazy” and brash. The team is performing poorly, in part because the team’s corrupt, immoral co-owner, Judge Banner, has arranged several bad trades in an attempt to diminish shareholders’ confidence in Pop Fisher, thereby allowing Banner to take over the team. It is suggested that Harriet is obsessed with killing famous athletes, and Hobbs’ demonstrated prowess against the Whammer encouraged her to target him.įifteen years later, Hobbs enters the dugout of the New York Knights and introduces himself to the team’s manager and coach, Pop Fisher and Red Blow. He accepts and visits her, but upon entering the room, she shoots him in the chest with a silver bullet from a pistol. Hobbs makes it to Chicago, where he receives a call from Harriet inviting him to her hotel room. Sam is accidentally hit in the stomach during the competition weakened, he dies shortly thereafter, insisting that Hobbs continue on with his travels. Though apparently outmatched, Hobbs wins the competition, attracting the attention of both a conniving journalist, Max Mercy, and a mysterious, striking young woman also traveling on the train, Harriet Bird. On the train, Hobbs and Sam encounter Walter “The Whammer” Whambold, a well-known baseball star, and when the train makes a stop at a carnival, Sam organizes a pitching and hitting competition between Hobbs and the Whammer. Roy Hobbs, a nineteen-year-old baseball prodigy, is traveling to Chicago with the scout who discovered him, Sam Simpson, to try out for the Chicago Cubs.
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