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Bits and Pieces, Oct. 13, 2015

October 13, 2015

Notice how at this time of year “mainstream” (i.e., non-sports) writers and media in general come up with all sorts of “interesting” features about baseball? Here’s one about the “fine art” of scorekeeping now that the LA Dodgers are in the postseason. W.P. Kisnella‘s Shoeless Joe is listed among “5 books that influenced lives in […]

Tagged as: baseball movies, Black Sox scandal, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Jonathan Knight, Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella

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A Field of Dreams heads-up

May 8, 2014

Obsessive as I am, I like to check the stats to see how this blog is doing and, being as niche as it is and considering the work I put into it, I can’t say I’m too disappointed. This ain’t The New York Times or Google, so I know it won’t draw huge numbers. I […]

Tagged as: baseball movies, Dwier Brown, Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town…

April 5, 2012

What the heck is toddlin’ anyway? The Chicago Tribune posted several items of literary baseball interest recently. ♦ Rob Manker on the 30th anniversary of the publication of W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe. One of the scarier points: many kids who first read the book now have kids of their own. ♦ James Finn Garner, who […]

Tagged as: Chicago Tribune, James Finn Garner, Jonathan Alter, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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Kinsella feted by Canadian Baseball HoF

December 21, 2011

W. P. Kinsella was awarded the 2011 Jack Graney Award, presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame for a “significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada through a life’s work or for a singular outstanding achievement.” The award is named for one of the first Canadian baseball players to enjoy success in the […]

Tagged as: Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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What’s on Second: A literary recap

March 29, 2011

The topic on the March 28 Internet broadcast of What’s on Second included baseball anthologies, either by a single writer, or covering a specific topic, or just the game in general.  The only qualification was they could not be coffee-table books; they had to be something small enough to bring to the ballpark so they […]

Tagged as: baseball anthologies, Charles Einstein, Fireside Book of Baseball, Jerome Holtzman, John Thorn, Shoeless Joe

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* J.D. Salinger, Terence Mann, and Field of Dreams

January 29, 2010 · 2 comments

Thanks to a comment by Robert Loy, I had a “Homer Simpson” moment for totally forgetting about a crucial Salinger/baseball connection. Loy wrote, “What I want to know is why the ever-litigious Salinger didn’t sue Bill Kinsella over being included in ‘Shoeless Joe.’  And if he was okay with it why did they change it […]

Tagged as: Field of Dreams, J.D. Salinger, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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* Review: Shoeless Joe and The Celebrant

March 23, 2009

From The Henry Wiggen Blog, this review of the W.P. Kinsella classic and Eric Role Greenberg’s novel.

Tagged as: Eric Rolfe Greenberg, Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe, The Celebrant, W. P. Kinsella

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