<Archive Obituary> 'Moonlight' Graham (August 25th 1965)
Bill Schenley
Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was eight-years-old and
Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also became a doctor in Chisholm,
Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to Hibbing, MN to deliver a baby boy.
Robert
Zimmerman.>
His was a Life of Greatness
Photo:
http://www.cardmall.com/moonlight-graham/doc4a.gif
<Excerpt> FROM: The Chisholm (Minnesota) Free Press & Tribune (August 1965)
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By Veda Frances Ponikvar, Editor
"And there were times when children could not afford eyeglasses or milk or
clothing. Yet no child was ever denied these essentials because in the
background there was always Dr. Graham. Without any fanfare or publicity,
the glasses or the milk or the ticket to the ballgame found their way into
the child's pocket."
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1905 baseball card:
http://www.cardmall.com/moonlight-graham/card1.gif
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<Excerpt> FROM: The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (June 29th 2005) ~
By Larry Oakes
While still new in Chisholm, he grew sweet on Alicia Madden, a
schoolteacher. She was a farmer's daughter from Rochester, and they married
in 1915.
They never had children. Instead, they showered their affection on every
child in town -- he as the full-time doctor for the public schools for more
than 40 years, she as the director of countless community plays.
They built a house that still stands in southeast Chisholm, on the fringe of
a neighborhood known as Pig Town, for the livestock kept by the hardscrabble
immigrant miners' families.
"That was Doc," said Bob McDonald, who grew up in Chisholm and has coached
high school basketball there for 44 years. "He and Alicia could have lived
up with the high and mighty on Windy Hill, but they chose to be among the
common people."
McDonald remembers a wiry, athletic man, dapper in an ever-present black hat
and black trench coat, walking everywhere and always swinging an umbrella.
Yes, he said, Alicia did always wear blue.
On the opening night of all of her plays, Graham would sit in the same seat
in the back of the high school auditorium, a dozen roses in his lap,
Ponikvar said.
People were poor, but schools used mining company taxes to meet needs. Under
Doc's care, kids got free eyeglasses, toothbrushes and medical care. He
lectured them on nutrition, inoculated them, rode their team buses, made
20-year charts of their blood pressure, swabbed their sore throats, made
house calls if they stayed home sick.
He bought apartment houses but charged rock-bottom rents, and no rent to a
single mother and her eight children, Ponikvar remembers.
"Doc became a legend," she wrote when he died. "He was the champion of the
oppressed. Never did he ask for money or fees."
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Box score for the June 29th 1905 baseball game between the New York Giants
and the Brooklyn Superbas:
http://iammadonna.oracleswar.com/uploaded_images/604moonlight4.jpg
<Note: Unlike in the movie, Graham played in *two* innings and it wasn't
the
last game of the season and it was in 1905 not 1922.>
'Moonlight' Graham in art:
http://www.cardmall.com/moonlight-graham/card5.gif
http://www.cardmall.com/moonlight-graham/card19.jpg
Stats: http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grahamo01.shtml
King Daevid MacKenzie
> Note: Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham's best friend was also a doctor,
> Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was eight-years-old and
> Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also became a doctor in Chisholm,
> Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to Hibbing, MN to deliver a baby boy.
> Robert Zimmerman.
...the Zimmerman kid later became known as blues singer Blind Boy Grunt
and backed Steve Goodman on one of his albums...
;-)
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King Daevid MacKenzie
> Note: Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham's best friend was also a doctor,
> Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was eight-years-old and
> Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also became a doctor in Chisholm,
> Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to Hibbing, MN to deliver a baby boy.
> Robert
> Zimmerman.
...whoa -- Zimmerman was born in Duluth and moved to Hibbing when he was
seven years old...
Kim
echoes...@charter.net wrote on 8/25/06 8:48 AM:
> Bill Schenley sez:
>
>> Note: Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham's best friend was also a doctor,
>> Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was eight-years-old and
>> Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also became a doctor in Chisholm,
>> Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to Hibbing, MN to deliver a baby boy.
>> Robert
>> Zimmerman.
>
> ...whoa -- Zimmerman was born in Duluth and moved to Hibbing when he was
> seven years old...
Dr. Graham died in 1965? Why was he portrayed as alive in "Field Of Dreams"
when Kevin Costner met him on a night that the theater marquee showed "The
Godfather" (1972) was playing? All-time great movie though regardless!
James Neibaur
> Dr. Graham died in 1965? Why was he portrayed as alive in "Field Of Dreams"
> when Kevin Costner met him on a night that the theater marquee showed "The
> Godfather" (1972) was playing? All-time great movie though regardless!
not as good as American Hot Wax, though, is it?
King Daevid MacKenzie
...well, there's no way to convince you on the joys of Floyd Mutrux's
follow-up picture, so I'll say it is ;-) ...
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, King Daevid MacKenzie
<echoes...@charter.net> wrote:
> > Note: Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham's best friend was also a
> > doctor, Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was
> > eight-years-old and Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also
> > became a doctor in Chisholm, Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to
> > Hibbing, MN to deliver a baby boy. Robert Zimmerman.
>
> ...the Zimmerman kid later became known as blues singer Blind Boy Grunt
> and backed Steve Goodman on one of his albums...
Played harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album, too, I believe.
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Bill Schenley
> > Walter Eisenman. Dr. Eisenman died when his son was eight-years-old and
> > Graham raised the boy. Walter Eisenman Jr. also became a doctor in
> > Chisholm, Minnesota. In 1941 he traveled to Hibbing, MN to deliver a
> > baby boy. Robert Zimmerman.
> ...whoa -- Zimmerman was born in Duluth and moved to Hibbing when he was
> seven years old...
Ya' know ... If that Zimmerman kid would'a been a first baseman ... I would
have remembered that ..
Bill Schenley
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