Spoiler Alert I guess. Just how old was Bump Bailey when he died crashing through the wall? In the funeral scene I thought his grave stone said 1911-1929, making him only 18. He couldn't possibly have been that young. The batboy maybe, but not Bump.
shareHe was 28. 1911-1939. Sounds about right to me, as he was supposedly an established star of the Knights. Found this interesting blog about The Natural here:
http://pawsoxblog.mlblogs.com/2013/08/14/the-natural/img_1222/
Somebody also has put out a Bump Bailey baseball card with the same dates listed.
The pudgy ball boy looked like he was 13-14 to me.
Ha, I just found this great article from ESPN- the kid playing the bat boy was 13, and wasn't an actor:
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020918.html
Pretty obvious the batboy wasn't an actor. All his exchanges were pretty awkward.
shareYou're not really serious about that. Are you? It's pretty obvious that that was the way he was coached. Barry Levinson is a pretty good director and that was the way he was coached to read his lines.
shareWhen I used to watch this on TV with my college buddies, we called him the fatboy.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.