[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Moonlight Graham.

If W.P. Kinsella had picked another name from the Baseball Encyclopedia when writing his book, then that player's items would be commanding nonsensical premiums instead, and Graham would have continued to be practically forgotten about outside of a small number of baseball historians. This explains just how ridiculous it all is. End of story.

Moonlight Graham as a romanticized notion is fine and dandy, but aside from a couple of factual biographical tidbits included in the novel and the film, what people are truly captivated by are the performances of the actors who portrayed him, most notably Burt Lancaster. In that case, it always made more sense to me to direct the spending towards Lancaster and Kinsella, as they are more closely related to this semi-fictional version of Moonlight Graham that has raised the prices of the actual Graham's material.