W. Kinsella - The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

BY W. P. KINSELLA

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I The Warm-up Contents Title Page The Iowa Baseball Confederacy BY W. P. KINSELLA Copyright The Friday Project An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB www.harpercollins.co.uk This ebook first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014 Copyright © W. P. Kinsella 1986 Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014 Portions of this novel appeared in a slightly different form in Descant, Saturday Night, New Quarterly, Arete, and Buzzard’s Luck, and in the short story collections The Thrill of the Grass (Penguin Books, 1984). Several excerpts were broadcast on CBC Radio and the MacNiel/Lehrer NewsHour . W. P. Kinsella asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. FIRST EDITION A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007497508 Ebook Edition © July 2014 ISBN: 9780007591299 Version: 2014-08-07 I: The Warm-up 1 2 3 4 5 II: The Game 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 III: The Post-game Show 14 Also by the W.P. Kinsella About the Publisher

1 Contents Title Page The Iowa Baseball Confederacy BY W. P. KINSELLA Copyright The Friday Project An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB www.harpercollins.co.uk This ebook first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014 Copyright © W. P. Kinsella 1986 Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014 Portions of this novel appeared in a slightly different form in Descant, Saturday Night, New Quarterly, Arete, and Buzzard’s Luck, and in the short story collections The Thrill of the Grass (Penguin Books, 1984). Several excerpts were broadcast on CBC Radio and the MacNiel/Lehrer NewsHour . W. P. Kinsella asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. FIRST EDITION A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007497508 Ebook Edition © July 2014 ISBN: 9780007591299 Version: 2014-08-07 I: The Warm-up 1 2 3 4 5 II: The Game 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 III: The Post-game Show 14 Also by the W.P. Kinsella About the Publisher