Bernard Malamud, in addition to using real people and events as the basis of the story, wove many elements from Medieval literature into the story's narrative. The name of the fictional team is the Knights, which is a prominent feature of ancient legends.
Roy's name is taken from "Roi," the French word for king and "Hobbs" is related to horse, a fixture for the medieval knight. The Knights spend the summer in a quest to win the League pennant, a substitute for the Holy Grail of legend. The manager Pop Fisher's name is taken from the legend of The Fisher King, which tells the story of a king whose kingdom is slowly dying and which he's incapable of saving.
As he watches it slowly become a wasteland, he awaits the arrival of some knight who may be able to save him and his land from its inevitable destruction, a theme that describes Roy Hobbs' arrival to the Knights.
Roy's resemblance to a knight s strengthened by "Wonderboy" with his bat made from a tree struck by lightening, which resembles Excalibur from the Arthurian legends. The Natural is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Malamud. One big change is that Roy did not know Iris from his youth and does not discover years later that she had a child by him.
In the book he meets her much as he reunites with her in the movie, at the ballpark during a game. They have a brief relationship which he ends so that he can stay with Memo, but when he later discovers Iris is pregnant with his child, he decides to be with her instead of Memo.
The main difference is at the end, as the book has a tragic ending instead of the typical happy Hollywood ending found in the film.
In the film Roy Hobbs refuses the Judge's offer to throw the game and hits a game winning home run. In the novel Roy agrees to take the Judges' money to throw the climatic game, but when discovers that Iris is pregnant with his child, he changes his mind and tries to renege on the scheme. At the crucial moment Roy unintentionally strikes out and the game ends with the Knights losing the pennant and Pop his share of the team. Roy's disgrace is magnified when Max Mercy discovers that Roy took money to throw the game, which will lead to his inevitable banning from baseball.
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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". But when Roy struck out The Whammer during the train stop, she turned her attention to Roy. She talked to him on the train and got him interested in her…enough to lure him to her room later.
After Eddie Waitkus returned from the war, he returned to the Cubs for the season. He does well the next two seasons too, which gets the attention of a year-old Chicago fan named Ruth Catherine Steinhagen. She becomes romantically obsessed with Waitkus from a distance.
Her mother later admitted that Ruth would set a place for Waitkus at the family dinner table. When Waitkus is traded to the Phillies for the season, she falls apart emotionally and feels abandoned. When the Phillies come to play the Cubs at Wrigley field in June of , she had a plan to kill him. Harriet Bird shot Hobbs and then committed suicide. In the movie, Harriet Bird evidently committed suicide by jumping out the hotel window.
The shooting is a scandalous story they were hoping to use to blackmail Roy into throwing a playoff game for the pennant. Ruth Steinhagen shot Waitkus and was sent to a state psychiatric hospital. According to interviews, articles, Ruth had actually intended to kill Waitkus by stabbing him with a knife. She was then going to commit suicide by shooting herself with the rifle. She never did jail time. After a court hearing and grand jury investigation, a judge decided she was insane at the time of the shooting and sent her to a state hospital for a term of three years.
The movie Roy Hobbs played part of one season only, hit a heroic homer, then settled down.
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