On this Date in Minnesota History: August 25

August 25, 1965(1965-08-25) - Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, “an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905,” died on this date in Chisholm, Minn. “His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley as older and younger incarnations of Graham.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Graham

Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grahamo01.shtml