Shoeless Joe / Kinsella, W. P

Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him "If you build it, he will come." Driven by this vision, he turns part of his field into a baseball stadium where the ghosts of famous baseball players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, come to play.

An Iowa farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will play in it.

Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship award. An Iowa insurance agent turned farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe will play in it.

"If you build it, he will com.e" The mysterious words of an Iowa baseball announcer lead Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson.

An Iowa farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will play in it.