William Patrick Kinsella, OC (born May 25, 1935, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a noted novelist who mainly writes about Canada's First Nations and baseball. The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Industry Integrity Progress City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canadas Location. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Carved mask in Vancouver First Nations is a term for ethnicity used in Canada to replace the word Indian. It refers to the Indigenous peoples of North America located in what is now Canada, and their descendants, who are not Inuit or Métis. ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball past a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth cylinder called a bat. ...

His most famous work is probably Shoeless Joe, upon which the movie Field of Dreams was based. A short story by Kinsella, Lieberman in Love, was the basis for a short film that won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film -- the Oscar win came as a surprise to Kinsella, who, watching the award telecast from home, had no idea the film had been made and released. He had not been listed in the film's credits, and was not acknowledged by Christine Lahti in her acceptance speech -- a full page advertisement was later placed in Variety apologizing to Kinsella for the error. Kinsella's short stories about life on a First Nations reserve were the basis for the CBC television series, The Rez. Joseph Jefferson Shoeless Joe Jackson (July 16, 1889 - December 5, 1951) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. ... Baseball field from the movie. ... This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ... Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. ... Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ... In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...

Before becoming a professional author, he worked as a scout for the Atlanta Braves and was a professor of English at the University of Alberta. Kinsella suffered a car accident in 1997 which resulted in the end of his fiction writing career. He is a noted tournament Scrabble player. He lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Major league affiliations National League (1876-present) East Division (1994-present) West Division (1969-1993) Major league titles World Series titles (3) 1995 â€¢ 1957 â€¢ 1914 NL Pennants (17) 1999 â€¢ 1996 â€¢ 1995 â€¢ 1992 1991 â€¢ 1958 â€¢ 1957 â€¢ 1948 1914 â€¢ 1898 â€¢ 1897 â€¢ 1893 1892 â€¢ 1891 â€¢ 1883 â€¢ 1878 1877 East Division titles (11) 2005... Natural Resources Engineering Facility The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board. ... Chilliwack is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. ...

In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Order of British Columbia insignia The Order of British Columbia is British Columbias highest award for outstanding achievement. ...

Works

• Dance Me Outside - 1977
• Scars - 1978
• Born Indian - 1981
• Shoeless Joe - 1982 (winner of the 1983 Books in Canada First Novel Award)
• The Thrill of the Grass - 1984
• The Alligator Report - 1985
• The Iowa Baseball Confederacy - 1986
• The Fence Post Chronicles - 1986 (winner of the 1987 Stephen Leacock Award)
• Five Stories - 1985
• Red Wolf, Red Wolf - 1987
• The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt - 1988
• The Miss Hobbema Pageant - 1989
• Box Socials - 1991
• The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories - 1993
• Brother Frank's Gospel Hour - 1994
• The Winter Helen Dropped By - 1995
• If Wishes Were Horses - 1996
• Magic Time - 1998
• The Secret of the Northern Lights - 1998
• Japanese Baseball and Other Stories - 2000

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External links

• An annotated bibliography of his writings on baseball
• A copy of a National Post article on Kinsella's Scrabble successes
• Article on Kinsella's 1997 accident