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* [[Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts]]: Ray and Mann pick up the younger Moonlight Graham while driving through the Midwest and take him to the field so he finally gets a chance to play baseball.
* [[Brandishment Bluff]]: Ray, out of desperation, tries to kidnap Terence with a finger in his jacket. Terence isn't fooled for a second.
* [[Down to
* [[Did Not Do the Research]] -- It is up for debate, but the movie (and source novel) portrays Jackson as an innocent victim in the entire Black Sox scandal, unjustly banned for life from the game of baseball. The reality of the situation was much more complicated, and at least a handful of baseball writers have analyzed the statistics from that World Series and concluded that Jackson might very well have participated in the fix.
* [[Game of Nerds]] -- Terence Mann
** Moonlight Graham also applies, he is a doctor after all.
* [[Film of the Book]] -- Based on the novel ''Shoeless Joe'' by [[
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Graham steps off the field to save Karin's life, at the cost of being able to play on the field again.
* [[Magic Realism]]
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* [[Melancholy Moon]]
* [[Moral Guardians]]: The townspeople who wish to ban the work of Terence Mann.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The famously reclusive author Terence Mann was the famously reclusive author [[
* [[Offscreen Afterlife]]
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]
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* [[Put Me in Coach]] -- Moonlight Graham
* [[Scenery Porn]] -- The field itself was built on two separate properties to allow for uninhibited sunset shots, several scenes set during "Magic Hour" (very late twilight) were actually shot over the course of several days to preserve the lighting.
* [[Shout-Out]] -- "As a small boy, he had a bat named [[Citizen Kane
** A shout out is given when Shoeless Joe Jackson mentions "the thrill of the grass," another book by [[
* [[Strawman Political]]: The [[Moral Guardians]].
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Ray is seeking the approval of his father.
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