Shoeless Joe | Related Titles
The major themes in The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986) are a love for baseball and the nature of dreams. The theme is evident in Gideon Clarke's quest to prove that in 1908 the Chicago Cubs played a game with the All Stars of the amateur Iowa Baseball Confederacy in Big Inning, Iowa. Stan Rogalski, Gideon's friend and aging triple A ballplayer, has loved the game and hopes someday to play in the major leagues. Similar to the dream motifs in Shoeless Joe, both Gideon and Stan fulfill their dreams when they slip through the "cracks in time" to the "gauzy dreamland that...
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