Roy Hobbs Timeline and Summary

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• Confident young Roy heads to Chicago to try out for the Cubs, but his scout and mentor dies on the way, leaving him on his own in Chicago.
• A woman named Harriet shoots and nearly kills Roy in his hotel room, and he drops out of sight.
• He bangs around semipro leagues and is eventually discovered by a scout.
• Many years later Roy gets a job with the New York Knights, and with his prowess the team goes from a losing streak to nearly being the champions of their league.
• Roy falls in love with the coach's niece, Memo, but she doesn't give him the time of day.
• He's determined to become rich and famous to attract Memo.
• The team celebrates Roy Hobbs Day, and he gets a new car.
• Memo and Roy go out for a drive in his new car, and Roy thinks they might have run over a boy and his dog in the fog, but he can't find any traces of them.
• After his date with Memo, Roy goes into a slump and can't get any hits.
• One day, a woman stands up in the stands when Roy goes up to bat, and he hits a homer.
• Roy looks for the mysterious woman in the stands and finds out her name is Iris Lemon. They go on a date to a lake and have sex there.
• After Iris tells him that she's a grandmother, Roy loses interest in her.
• He takes up with Memo again, and she invites him to a party to celebrate the Knights' making it to the playoffs.
• At the party Roy eats like a pig and winds up in the hospital.
• In the hospital, Memo and the team owner, the Judge, visit Roy and ask him to throw the playoff game in exchange for money.
• Roy agrees because he wants to have enough money for Memo to marry him.
• At the game, Roy plays half-heartedly, but toward the end starts to regret his decision.
• Roy tries to save the game, but he strikes out and loses.
• The newspapers speculate that Roy threw the game on purpose.
• Roy's career ends in disgrace, and he's filled with shame and self-loathing for abandoning his principles and failing to be the best he could be.