As he enters the room, he catches Exley unawares and sees him in his true form – Josh Exley, it turns out, is an alien. That night in the team’s hotel, he hears a noise from Exley’s room and investigates. Dales has it sent off to a lab to be analyzed. ![]() But strangest of all is the greenish goo that eats away at the catcher’s mitt that was used to prop up Exley’s head while he was unconscious. He babbles what seems like gibberish before saying he remembers that he is from Macon, GA, then finally gets to his feet. Things get strange when Exley is hit in the head during an at-bat. Along the way, he develops a budding friendship with Exley and his teammates on the Roswell Grays. Dales does his job conscientiously and thoroughly, keeping his eyes peeled for any threat on Exley’s life. It’s 1947, and Negro League legend Josh Exley is on pace to hit 61 homeruns in a single season, which puts him on the radar of the New York Yankees, and also in the crosshairs of people who want to keep pro baseball segregated. The heart of his tale is this question – “Do you believe that love can make a man shapeshift?” Dales tells him the story of when he was a police officer in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and was assigned to protect Exley from threats against his life. The newspaper leads him to Arthur Dales, brother of the Arthur Dales who created the X-Files (they have a sister and a fish also named Arthur Dales, apparently). Mulder gets interested in an account of a Negro League baseball player in 1947 named Josh Exley after seeing a photo in an old newspaper of Exley, Arthur Dales (who created the X-Files), and a shapeshifting alien bounty hunter. The X-Files baseball episode 619: The Unnatural ![]() For the uninitiated, here’s the rundown of The X-Files episode 619: The Unnatural. As fate would have it, there is an X-Files episode out there combines these favorites – Baseball, the X-Files, and somewhat heavy-handed allegory. In addition to my nerdiness about sci-fi, I get nerdy about stuff like baseball, and philosophy and theology. Pair that up with the fact that my default text alert tone is the door chime from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I think I’ve made my point. I’m the only person I know who has the Farnsworth noise from Warehouse 13 as the ringtone on their phone. I nerd out over science fiction – particularly the stuff that’s mainstream enough to gain a wide audience, but still maybe a little bit fringe.
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