IF WISHES WERE HORSES. by Kinsella, W.P

HarperCollins, (Toronto, 1996), Ist edition. 216 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Remember Ray Kinsella, the baseball visionary...from 'Shoeless Joe'? Or Gideon Clarke, the hero from 'The Iowa Baseball Confederacy', who, after a miraculous sojourn in the past, proved that what he a nd his father new about a Midwestern baseball league was entirely true? Nobody believed either of them. And nobody believes Joe McCoy. Joe McCoy's only hope is that Ray Kinsella and Gideon Clarke will believe his fantastical tale. Joe k n o w s t h a t , if he had to do it over again, he definitely would have pitched the Iowa State Baseball Championship, for sure married his tough but sexy high school sweetheart Maureen - and would never have written that crazy story about the U FO s ig ht in g . N ow h e's on the run from the law, accused of hijacking a jet and kidnapping a baby. And he can't quite shake the feeling that there must be a parallel dimension where he's living the life he was supposed to lead - his real li fe. .." M ino r w ri nk lin g t o t op/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light rubbing. NF/VG+.