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It was the war between the states, north versus south, but individuals have their own hearts and minds. 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. Like shoeless joe, kinsellas second novel, the iowa baseball confederacy 1986 has mystical overtones of magic and religion as revealed in the rituals of baseball. The iowa baseball confederacy is a novel written by w. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the worldchampion chicago cubs traveled to onamata, iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against allstars from the iowa baseball confederacy, an amateur league.
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