"Three paragraphs in, there it is: W.P. Kinsella's most famous sentence, and no doubt the most misquoted line of his writing career as well. 'If you build it, he will come.' The he (not 'they') referred to in the instruction was Shoeless Joe Jackson, the baseball star disgraced for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series and the eponymous hero of Mr. Kinsella's seminal novel, Shoeless Joe. The novel, about a struggling Iowa farmer who hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his corn field, was adapted for film as Field of Dreams – a critically acclaimed blockbuster that made the already beloved novel a sensation. For Mr. Kinsella, baseball wasn't simply a game – it was poetry, and a metaphor for life. ..."
Shoeless Joe author W.P. Kinsella saw baseball as a metaphor for life
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