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Shoeless Joe
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Shoeless Joe (1982) (edit title/settings)

by W. P. Kinsella (Author) (edit contributors)

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"If you build it, he will come." Them mysterious words of an Iowa baseball announcer lead Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. This is a book "not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and... read more

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  • “If you build it, he will come.”
  • Popular Highlights from Kindle Customers
  • ‘Success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get.’
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  • The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those, like Annie’s mother, who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.
    Highlighted by 20 Kindle customers
  • “I don’t have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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  • the chance to squint my eyes when the sky is so blue it hurts to look at it, and to feel the tingle that runs up your arms when you connect dead-on. The chance to run the bases, stretch a double to a triple, and flop face-first into third base, wrapping my arm around the bag.
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  • But it seems that even for dreams, I have to work and wait. It hardly seems fair.
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  • Serenity is a very elusive quality. I’ve been trying all my life to find it. I’m very ordinary.
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  • Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints; no two are ever the same.”
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  • to translate this situation to reality would be like trying to stuff a cloud in a suitcase.
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  • Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples’ lives for them.
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  • “Back in the early days, Chicago’s West Side Park, as you might expect, faced west, so anyone who pitched left-handed was doing so with his southmost hand, or south paw. And that’s all there was to it. Most mysterious-sounding things have simple explanations.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
II. They Tore Down the Polo Grounds in 1964
III. The Life and Times of Moonlight Graham
IV. The Oldest Live Chicago Cub
V. The Rapture of J.D. Salinger

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. W. P. Kinsella (Author)

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  1. John Heard (Reader) - reader of audio cassette edition

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 039532047X
Page Count: 265

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