To officially kick off IHIBasebalLi month (or RBI-HIBILI month? IHI-RBI-LI month? Anyway it's baseball month), we're talking about the 1984 Robert Redford film The Natural! We discuss the heavy handed morality tale, an unintentionally hilarious character death, and the TRULY bizarre decision to have a 48-year-old Redford play his character at 19 years old. Yes, really.

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