The book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.
The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come."
"He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero.
"It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield.
Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....
- ISBN10 039532047X
- ISBN13 9780395320471
- Publish Date 1 January 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 265
- Language English