The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W. P. Kinsella
A whimsical, melancholy novel follows an obsessive amateur baseball historian who becomes consumed by a legendary, possibly supernatural 1908 amateur team from rural Iowa; he recruits and trains aging dreamers, pursues archival fragments and local folklore, and eventually experiences a mysterious time-slip that sends the team into a mythic series of games against Black and semi-pro opponents. Blending magical realism, tall-tale humor, and elegiac nostalgia, the story explores the power of myth, the romance of baseball, and the thin line between memory and invention.
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- Published
- 1986
- Nationality
- Canadian
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- Original Language
- English
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