W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBCis a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 May 1935
CountryCanada
baseball bird cracks
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
baseball lightning bats
He bats like a lightning rod.
baseball home games
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
baseball hero games
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
baseball games coins
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
baseball growing-up firsts
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
sports baseball america
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
baseball eye men
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
baseball life-changing ocean
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
baseball games two
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
again liked paragraph thrills
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
tennis world
I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
My main income came from failed movie and TV options.