Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Iowa

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795311710
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395957738
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than the inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe is a mythical novel about "dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American" (Philadelphia Inquirer). "If you build it, he will come." These mysterious words, spoken by an Iowa baseball announcer, inspire Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is both a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your way home.

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007517750
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe written by W. P. Kinsella and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story was the basis for the movie "Field of Dreams".

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618340804
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Baseball Confederacy written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one page to the next, until at the end you ache for more" ("Milwaukee Journal").

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887503436
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa written by W. P. Kinsella and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Saskatoon : Thistledown Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Northern Lights written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Saskatoon : Thistledown Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in 1977 with Dance Me Outside.

Author : W.P. Kinsella
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586422065
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butterfly Winter written by W.P. Kinsella and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, a lush and enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question. The brothers are destined to play ball in America, and to shape the history of their baseball-crazed homeland. They mature quickly and by the age of ten they leave home for the Major Leagues. Julio is a winning pitcher who, much to the chagrin of any team that signs him, will only throw to his catcher brother, who is a very weak hitter. As they pursue their baseball dreams, events in their homeland, including political brutalities and the outlawing of baseball, continue to shape their lives. They are monitored by the Wizard, a mysterious figure who controls events behind the scenes. In his last years, the Wizard tells the story of the twins, their family and their lovers to a skeptical gringo journalist. Butterfly Winter is a magical literary romp that includes a diabolical chiropractor, a romance blessed by butterflies and a deep political undercurrent that unites the wealthy north with the baseball-loving, talent-laden but oppressed and deprived south.

Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061973564
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoeless Joe & Me written by Dan Gutman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career -- he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his hand, he just might be able to prevent the infamous Black Sox Scandal from ever taking place. And if he could do that, Shoeless Joe Jackson would finally take his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. But can Stosh prevent that tempting envelope full of money from making its way to Shoeless Joe's hotel room before the big game?

Author : Tim Hornbaker
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1613219148
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Tim Hornbaker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by Ty Cobb as “the finest natural hitter in the history of the game,” “Shoeless Joe” Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average—which is still ranked third all-time—the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. That is until the “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core. While many have sympathized with Jackson’s ban from baseball (even though he hit .375 during the 1919 World Series), not much is truly known about this quiet slugger. Whether he participated in the throwing of the World Series or not, he is still considered one of the game’s best, and many have fought for his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. From the author of Turning the Black Sox White (on Charles Comiskey) and War on the Basepaths (on Ty Cobb), Shoeless Joe tells the story of the incredible life of Joseph Jefferson Jackson. From a mill boy to a baseball icon, author Tim Hornbaker breaks down the rise and fall of “Shoeless Joe,” giving an inside look during baseball’s Deadball Era, including Jackson’s personal point of view of the “Black Sox” scandal, which has never been covered before. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.