The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories

First edition (publ. Harper Collins)

The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories is a short story collection written by W. P. Kinsella. It was published in 1993.

Synopsis

These nine stories from Kinsella all have the same general themes, centering on baseball, human nature, and the mystical.

The title story is about an undrafted college player's attempt to go pro. He catches on with a minor league team in a small Iowa town, where the atmosphere is light and the citizens welcoming. However, something isn't right about the new team...

Other stories in the collection are more surreal. For example, in "Eggs," an old pitcher is kept in his in-laws' home by some mysterious force.

W. P. Kinsella

Novels	Shoeless Joe (1982) The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986) Box Socials (1991) Magic Time (1998)

Short Story Collections	Dance Me Outside (1977) Scars (1978) Shoeless Joe Jackson Goes To Iowa (1980) Born Indian (1981) Maccasin Telegraph (1983) The Thrill of the Grass (1984) The Last Pennant Before Armageddon (1984) Five Stories (1985) The Alligator Report (1985) The Fencepost Chronicles (1986) Red Wolf, Red Wolf (1987) The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt (1988) The Miss Hobbema Pageant (1989) The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories (1993) Brother Frank's Gospel Hour (1994) If Wishes Were Horses (1996) The Secret of the Northern Lights (1998) Baseball Fantastic (2000) Japanese Baseball and Other Stories (2000)

Poetry	Rainbow Warehouse (1989)

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