![]() ![]() ![]() “His work has touched the lives of thousands of baseball fans across Canada and around the world,” Crawford said in a statement. Scott Crawford, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s director of operations, 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. 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 field in his corn fields. His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsella’s death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film “Field of Dreams,” has died. VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian novelist W.P. ![]()
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