“His most famous book was the classic Shoeless Joe, which inspired one of my favorite movies, Field of Dreams.” “His work has touched the lives of thousands of baseball fans across Canada and around the world,” Crawford said in a statement. Scott Crawford, director of operations at the Canadian hall, said he was saddened to learn of the author’s death. It looks like it will stand the test of time,” Kinsella said at the time. “I wrote it 30 years ago, and the fact that people are still discovering it makes me proud. In 2011 the Canadian baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada. Kinsella, a bona fide baseball junkie, loved the movie and said he had tears in his eyes when he first saw it. Key turns of phrases in Kinsella’s book “If you build it, they will come” and “Go the distance” have taken their place in literature’s lexicon and among Hollywood’s most memorable movie lines. It became the blueprint for the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie, which starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. In the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields.
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