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Kinsella, W.P._The Iowa Baseball Confederacy_,1986
 [0-345-41024-6]
It is 1978 and Gideon is obsessed (like his father before him) to
prove that the Chicago Cubs came to Iowa to play the All Stars of
the Iowa Baseball Confederacy.  He know and his father knew all
the statistics, and facts about the Confederacy but know one else
remembers it.  There is not even any mention of it in old
newspapers.  Suddenly Gideon and his friend Stan are send back
in time to the game where all sorts of magical things happen.
Because the game is always in a tie, they play overtime for several
weeks.  The game is held in limbo by an ancient Indian and his Job-
like struggle with his grandfathers. This is a baseball story wrapped
around a fantasy.  It was not written for children  (there are some
minor sexual references.)  I purchased it because a student
recommended I get it.  On pages 248-249 there is a wonderful
description of how to watch a baseball game.  I would not
recommend this 310 page book for middle school -- it is could be
confusing and long for them but I think it would be a good addition
to a HS with a solid fiction collection.  This author also wrote
"Shoeless Joe" on which the motion picture "Field of Dreams" is
based.

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