From Find-A-Grave.
Mr. Waitkus was an Major League All-Star three times, twice with the Cubs and once with the Phillies.
"While the Phillies were in Chicago to play the Cubs in 1949, he was shot by a deranged female fan who was obsessed with him. He was severely injured and missed the rest of the 1949 season, but recovered to play in all of the 1950 Phillies' pennant winning games the next season.
"The incident was the real-life inspiration for Bernard Malamud's baseball novel "The Natural" which was made into a movie of the same name starring Robert Redford."
He is buried in Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Plot WWII Lot, Tier 22, Grave 39.
His grave reads EDWARD WAITKUS, MASSACHUSETTS, CPL US ARMY WWII."
--Cooter
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