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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