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One of the more memorable characters from the movie, Field of Dreams, was Archibald "Moonlight" Graham played by Burt Lancaster. While attending a Boston Red Sox game with Terance Mann, Ray Kinsella receives a message on the scoreboard about "Moonlight" Graham, who played for the New York Giants in 1905. His baseball career ended having played only one inning and never having the opportunity to bat. Ray and Terance take this as instructions to go to Chisholm, Minnesota, and find "Moonlight." When they arrived, they discovered that Graham had become a physician and was affectionately known as Doc Graham. Sadly, he had died several years earlier. That night Ray had a long conversation with the ghost of Doc Graham. During the visit Ray is told Doc's story and wondered how Doc would have done if he had gotten to bat. Ray then tells him how tragic this had been. Doc responded by saying, "No, to have never become a doctor and helped these people, now that would have been tragic." When a replacement for Judas the betrayer was sought, two nominations were put forward. The man not chosen was Joseph called Barsabbas surnamed Justus. Little is known about the man who was chosen, Matthias. But was the scholar Matthew Henry correct when he speculated that Justus was the brother of Judas Barsabbas in Acts 15:22, who was sent as a messenger from the Jerusalem Conference? Was this the same Justus of Colossians 4:11 who was a comfort to Paul? It could well be that if Justus had been elected, it would have been a tragedy for Paul and all of Christianity. -- Angus
