Angst - analyzing how baseball healed (emotionally) both Moonlight Graham and Shoeless Joe Jackson in the book "Shoeless Joe" by W. P. Kinsella.

All of us have pain in our lives. For some, it is just a missing piece in an otherwise fulfilling life, while for a few it is the pain of a shattered life that left them only a shard of what could have been. Moonlight Graham was just missing a piece of his life. Shoeless Joe Jackson was missing all but a piece of his life, and it was baseball that completed them both.
Moonlight Graham, or better known as Doc Graham, was one of the lucky few who had the chance to fulfill his dream. He came close enough to touch it, but never quite made it enough to grasp it. Moonlight played one inning…