Ray Kinsella lives in Iowa and owns a farm. One day he hears a voice say "If you build it, he will come." And he is supposed to build is a baseball stadium and the person who will come is Shoeless Joe Jackson.Field of Dreams is a movie I've watched many times. I have loved it since I was a kid and w...
I picked this up used at the library's permanent book sale for a buck.Add it to the very short list of books which aren't as good as their movie adaptations. A lot of the speeches were improved by much pruning for the movie, and the plot was cleaned up a good bit, too.The book is okay, and I can see...
I always wanted to read the book that Field of Dreams was based on, but didn't know the title or the author. Then, browsing a used bookstore in New Hampshire, I happened to pick up this book.The movie and book follow a very similar story line, but the baseball culture, legacy and references are much...
This is a fantastic book, and while the author's love of baseball shines through, the book is about so much more than just baseball. And while Field of Dreams is a good movie, the book is so much better.
This was a disappointing portrait of an Albertan community in the late forties, early fifties. I found it far too Garrison Keilor-like. If I want to read about Lake Wobegon, I will go to the source. He describes the many people in the towns, relationships, family histories, to excess. It would have ...
It is a collection of baseball short stories. In one Caribbean outback, a player routinely transforms into a wolf, and continues to play. No one bats an eye. In The Fadeaway, an aging hurler conjures up Christy Mathewson, who teaches him how to throw a screwball. But the player never gets to try it ...
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