Steele, who teaches English at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
(Bill) Valgardson offered a crucial piece of advice: "He told him you're warming up for two pages before you get to the story and you're sticking around for about two pages too long," says Prof. Kinsella received his bachelor of arts in creative writing at the University of Victoria the same year he turned 39. The story was lost in one of the family moves. His father, a plastering contractor, had played minor league baseball but young Bill did not play himself until the family moved to Edmonton when he was 10.Īt 14 he won a YMCA contest with Diamond Doom, a two-page story about a murder weapon hidden under the turf in a baseball stadium.
William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton on May 25, 1935, and raised on a farm near Darwell, west of Edmonton, where he was home-schooled by his mother. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk." Salinger character says to farmer Ray Kinsella: "If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. Steele couldn't stop thinking about on Friday was from Shoeless Joe – a line the J.D. It was an assisted death, under the provisions of Bill C-14. Kinsella died Friday afternoon in Hope, B.C. His question he would ask as a writer was: What if? What if Shoeless Joe Jackson comes back from the dead? … And when you start asking that 'what if' question, anything's possible." And I think when you look at his baseball fiction, that's what it is. There's no limit to how far somebody can hit a ball, there's no limit to how far somebody can throw a ball, it's endless possibilities. You can play an infinite number of innings until somebody wins. "He always said with baseball, anything's possible," says Willie Steele, Mr. Kinsella, baseball wasn't simply a game – it was poetry, and a metaphor for life.
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