Shoeless Joe was later adapted into a screenplay for the film Field of Dreams by Phil Alden Robinson. Shoeless Joe is the winner of the 1983 Books in Canada First Novel Award and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. The background of the character is based on his true life, with a few factual liberties taken for artistic reasons. The character Moonlight Graham was a real baseball player, whom the author found while looking through The Baseball Encyclopedia. Salinger: A Young Girl In 1941 With No Waist At AllĪllusions/references to actual history and current science This article has been tagged since January 2007. Please remove this message once the section has been expanded. Please help improve this article by expanding this section.įurther information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. Father-and-son bond (bond between Ray and his father).Shoeless Joe Jackson, a baseball player who was among 8 Chicago White Sox accused of being paid to throw the 1919 World Series.Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham, a baseball player who never had a chance at bat in the majors, who then later became a doctor.Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye Eddie Scissons, who originally owned Ray's farm and claimed to be the oldest living Chicago Cub.Karin Kinsella, daughter of Ray and Annie.Richard Kinsella, identical twin brother of Ray.Salinger, as part of a journey the Philadelphia Inquirer called 'not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American.' Soon he's off on a cross-country trip to ease the pain of another hero, reclusive writer J.D. When he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the midst of his corn crop, in order to give his hero a chance at redemption, he blindly follows instructions and the field becomes a conduit to the spirits of baseball legend. Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa with his wife Annie and five-year-old daughter Karin, but privately is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball, and the plight of his hero Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 'Black Sox' of the 1919 World Series. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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