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Title: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Author: W. P. Kinsella
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-18-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and the Cubs thought, one-sided, turned into a titanic battle of over 2,000 innings, played mostly in the pouring rain. This game is not on the record books. No one remembers it or the Confederacy. But Gideon Clarke knows it happened, and he is determined to set the record straight.
Like in his previous novel, Shoeless Joe, which was the basis for the movie Field of Dreams, Kinsella creates a loving mixture of baseball, life and fantasy, in a world where dreams don't have to come true, because they have a validity all their own (Publishers Weekly).
Members Reviews:
Kinsella hits another fantastic home run with this wild magic baseball tale!
Kinsella is a master story teller and specializes in baseball and indigenous American themes. Field of Dreams is outdone in its fantasy and humor by The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. If you love baseball, the Cubs, and/or Iowa, then this book is something you will enjoy fully. If you love mystery and/or romance literature, you will be pleased by Kinsella's story and writing.
There is Magic in Baseball
Love this book, though may not be for you if you don't like "magical realism." Why baseball is unique among sports, why the stories endure, and why the game may be the highest form of sport and art.
... all books written by this author are magical and great.
Any and all books written by this author are magical and great.
A loyal companion!
A glorious summer read! Baseball, summer stillness and heat, whimsy, and wonder in every word! It will never get old!
All-time Favorite!
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I bought it for my brother-in-law as a gift.
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Title: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Author: W. P. Kinsella
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-18-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and the Cubs thought, one-sided, turned into a titanic battle of over 2,000 innings, played mostly in the pouring rain. This game is not on the record books. No one remembers it or the Confederacy. But Gideon Clarke knows it happened, and he is determined to set the record straight.
Like in his previous novel, Shoeless Joe, which was the basis for the movie Field of Dreams, Kinsella creates a loving mixture of baseball, life and fantasy, in a world where dreams don't have to come true, because they have a validity all their own (Publishers Weekly).
Members Reviews:
Kinsella hits another fantastic home run with this wild magic baseball tale!
Kinsella is a master story teller and specializes in baseball and indigenous American themes. Field of Dreams is outdone in its fantasy and humor by The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. If you love baseball, the Cubs, and/or Iowa, then this book is something you will enjoy fully. If you love mystery and/or romance literature, you will be pleased by Kinsella's story and writing.
There is Magic in Baseball
Love this book, though may not be for you if you don't like "magical realism." Why baseball is unique among sports, why the stories endure, and why the game may be the highest form of sport and art.
... all books written by this author are magical and great.
Any and all books written by this author are magical and great.
A loyal companion!
A glorious summer read! Baseball, summer stillness and heat, whimsy, and wonder in every word! It will never get old!
All-time Favorite!
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I bought it for my brother-in-law as a gift.