Shoeless Joe

Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story.

W. P. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale on love and the power dreams have to make people come alive.

“Shoeless Joe” was the great Joe Jackson, one of the eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox,...