The Essential W. P. Kinsella

This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella ( ), as well as the 25th anniversary of , the film that he inspired. In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia. Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic. Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns, is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.