Eddie Waitkus was never the same after he was shot ... 306 in 1949 before the shooting, .285 on his career), but they were empty. He hit for little power and drew only an average number of walks.

Eddie Waitkus, a tall, slender 29-year-old first ... He’d play six major league seasons after the shooting, some of them golden, but the trajectory of his life had been altered.

Ruth Ann Steinhagen, the Chicago woman whose near-fatal 1949 shooting of former Chicago Cubs first baseman Eddie Waitkus inspired the book and the movie “The Natural,” died with the same ...

The Associated Press recaps Steinhagen's real-life crime, which happend when she was 19, this way: "The story began with what appeared to be just another young woman's crush on Eddie Waitkus ...

Philadelphia first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot by a deranged teenage girl in a room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. The event was loosely referenced in relation to the Roy Hobbs ...

What almost took the life of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus was a case of near ... although we don’t know what effect the shooting might have had on his performance.

The shooting changed Waitkus. He became moody and suspicious, and was treated for alcoholism. Today we’d say he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Eddie Waitkus died in 1972 ...

That true story involves the 1949 shooting of Phillies’ first baseman Eddie Waitkus by an obsessed fan. A 19 year-old woman who idolized Waitkus when he played for the Cubs prior to his trade to ...

Ruth Ann Steinhagen was 19 when she shot Eddie Waitkus, a Philadelphia Phillie. She had been obsessed with him, and lured Waitkus to a Chicago... Stalker Who Inspired 'The Natural' Dies ...