"If you build it, he will come."

W.P. Kinsella
(Shoeless Joe, p. 3)

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  • Narrator hears baseball announcer voice and knows
  • he must build ballfield-- Shoeless Joe will come to it
  • Writer J.D. Salinger appears as character in novel
  • Book made into popular movie, Field of Dreams
  • J.D. Salinger somehow turns into James Earl Jones
  • Movie incorporates warm and fuzzy father/son ending

    • Beautiful ballfield in lush green cornfield does get built and Shoeless Joe does show up,
    accompanied by ghostly Black Sox teammates and ghostly father of Kevin Kostner character

    and they get the chance to play ball once again        

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