The train stops at a carnival, and Roy and the Whammer both show off their skills at games. Sam bets that Roy can strike out the Whammer, and Roy does. In the process, however, Roy accidentally hurts Sam, who dies later that day from the injury. When they reach Chicago, Harriet invites Roy to her room. After Roy tells her he will be "the greatest in the game," she shoots him.

Fifteen years later, Pop Fisher , the manager of the New York Knights, discovers he has a new "rookie" for his team?a thirty-four-year-old man named Roy Hobbs, whom the team's owner, the stingy Judge Banner, has signed for a paltry $3,000. The Knights are doing very poorly; even their playing field is dried up from a long drought.

Pop is skeptical of Roy. When Roy refuses to join the hypnotist sessions to which Pop subjec

Sam Simpson - The scout who first discovers Roy. Unfortunately, Sam dies on the way to Hobbs' first tryout, and is therefore not present to prevent Hobbs from being attacked by Harriet Bird. Sam acts as a kind of father figure to Roy.

Roy goes to breakfast, where he tries to strike up a conversation with the girl, to no avail. Meanwhile, Sam wakes up and heads for the bar. On a newspaper is a screaming headline about a dead Olympic athlete, killed just hours after a football star. Sam recognizes one of the men discussing the headline as Max Mercy, a famous sports journalist. The other man is known as the Whammer , the leading hitter in the American League. Sam boasts about Roy's skill to Mercy, who is relatively uninterested. Meanwhile, the Whammer is fairly successful in his attempts to hit on Harriet, which angers Roy.

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