The Natural: Roy Hobbs, baseball's greatest underdog

The Natural (1984) follows Roy Hobbs, a gifted baseball player whose promising career is derailed by a shooting. Sixteen years later, he finally gets another opportunity when he joins the struggling New York Knights, only to find that his age has everyone questioning whether he belongs.Played by Robert Redford, Roy refuses to let the years he lost define him. Armed with his homemade bat Wonderboy, he sets out to prove that his talent never disappeared.Is Roy Hobbs one of the greatest underdog characters in sports movie history?