Dustin Fowler, one of the three players the A’s received from the New York Yankees for Sonny Gray, has an eerie connection with a noted one-time major league player depicted in the movie “Field of Dreams.”
Like Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, the man author W.P. Kinsella and actor Burt Lancaster helped immortalize, Fowler’s major league career consists of just one game — more precisely, one inning of action in right field for a New York team. And like Graham, Fowler never got a chance to hit.
Want more coincidence? Fowler’s major league debut for the Yankees was on June 29 — exactly 112 years to the day of Graham’s only game for the New York Giants.