“If I‘d only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes, now that would have been a tragedy.”

While he is rapidly becoming my favorite newscaster, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was already my favorite sports guy, going back to the old days on ESPN. And he doesn't let his sports roots shrivel and die, despite now being the only guy who seems to consistently ask tough questions and report the unflattering stories bounding around DC right now. Aside from Jon Stewart, Olbermann's "Countdown" is my only regular television news source... But Keith ALSO writes for the MSNBC website - a column and a blog - and in one of his latest pieces, he told us something I'd not known before...Archie "Doc" Graham was real...

Does that name, Doc Graham, ring a bell? How about Moonlight Graham? Sure, it’s been 16 years since the movie came out, but it runs every month on TV.



Think hard now. Surely you remember Moonlight Graham. “Field of Dreams?” There you go.



It’s perhaps the iconic depiction of baseball on film, a magical combination of history, fantasy and innocence. It’s become that largely because of just one of its many characters, that fanciful creation that author W.P. Kinsella called Moonlight Graham.

It's a great little read.