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Bathed in Golden Light

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

By W. P. Kinsella  

22 Jan, 2026

Big Hair, Big Guns!

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W.P. Kinsella’s 1986 The Iowa Baseball Confederacy is a stand-alone historical baseball-fantasy novel. It could be considered CanLit, if published in Canada but set in the USA counts as CanLit.

Gideon Clarke inherited a house and a thriving insurance business from his late father. Gideon need never work. Convenient, because Gideon also inherited his father’s obsession with the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. As a consequence, Gideon may well be unemployable.

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