num_pages: 310
description: Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league.The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought, one-sided, turned into a titanic battle of over two thousand innings, played mostly in the pouring rain.This game is not on the record books; no one remembers it or the Confederacy. But Gideon Clarke knows it happened, and he is determined to set the record straight.
language: English
title: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
titlecomplete: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Baseball, Canada, Sports, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2246
places: Iowa
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Casey Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin