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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W.P. Kinsella

3.0

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There's always been a bit of magic in baseball. As the game was originally invented, it had no boundaries, either in space or time. The outfield went on forever and the clock never ran out. Kinsella grabs these elements and builds a story around them, a story equally devoid of limits on space and time. This novel might be what it'd look like if Gabriel Garcia Marquez sat down to write The Natural. Although it lacks Marquez' poetry and The Natural's singularity of purpose, it is still a fascinating journey.