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Ardolino, Frank. "Ceremonies of Innocence and Experience in Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and Eight Men Out." Journal of Popular Film and Television 18 (1990): 43-51.

Baseball Cards 1887-1914 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

Baseball. Ken Burns, dir. Videocassette. Florentine Films/WEA, 1994.

Booth, Michael. Rev. of Field of Dreams, dir. Phil Alden Robinson. Denver Post 23 October 2007. http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_7250766

Burk, Robert F. Never Just A Game: Players, Owners and American Baseball to 1920. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1994.

Carr, Jay. Rev. of Field of Dreams. Boston Globe 21 April 1989: 45.

Cooper, Caroline M. "Field of Dreams: A Favorite of President Clintonâ€"But A Typical Reaganite Film?" Literature and Film Quarterly 23 (1995): 163-68.

Denby, David. "Soft Ball." New York 24 April 1989: 96-97.

Dirks, Tom. Field of Dreams (1989). http://www.filmsite.org/fiel.html

Donaldson, Mara E. "Teaching Field of Dreams as Cosmogonic Myth." Journal of Religion and Film 2.3 (1998).

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Field of Dreams. Chicago Sun-Times 21 April 1989.

Field of Dreams Movie Site http://www.fieldofdreamsmoviesite.com/menu.html

Fitch, Janet. "Screenings: Field of Dreams." American Film May 1989: 62.

Fong, Bobby. "The Magic Cocktail: The Enduring Appeal of the Field of Dreams." Aethlon 11 (1993): 29-36.

Frommer, Harry. Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball. Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1992.

Gaughran, Richard. "Baseball Literature's Complex Pastoralism." Diss. Lehigh Univ., 1989.

Gehring, Wes D. "Field of Dreams: In Search of Capra's America." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 13.1-2(1993): 34-49.

Goddard, Peter. Rev. of Field of Dreams. Toronto Star 21 April 1989: D6.

Grella, George. "Baseball as Harvest: Field of Dreams." Atenea 18.1 (1998): 73-78.

Harrison, Thomas B. "'It's a Hit, but ...': Field of Dreams Tends to Get Lost in its Corniness." St. Petersburg Times 5 May 1989: 7.

Howe, Desson. Rev. of Field of Dreams, dir. Phil Alden Robinson. Washington Post 21 April 1989. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/fieldofdreamspghowe_a0b1fb.htm

Jacobson, Harlan. "Shot in the Dark: Born Again Baseball." Film Comment May 1989: 78-79.

James, Caryn. "A Baseball Diamond Becomes the Stuff of Dreams." Rev. of Field of Dreams. New York Times 21 April 1989: C8.

Jensen, Scott, and Joseph Schuster. "'Dad-Can We Have a Catch?': Images of Fatherhood and Redemption in Three Baseball Films." Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2002-2003. Ed. Peter Carino. Jefferson: McFarland, 2004.

Joffe, Linda S. "Praise Baseball. Amen: Religious Metaphors in Shoeless Joe and Field of Dreams. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 9.2 (1992): 153-63.

Kael, Pauline. "The Current Cinema Fascination." New Yorker 1 May 1989: 75.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Fake Me Out to the Ball Game." New Republic 8 May 1989: 26-27.

Kempley, Rita. "Field of Dreams: Bonkers over Baseball." Rev. of Field of Dreams. Washington Post 21 April 1989: C1.

Kirtz, Mary K. "Canadian Book, American Film: Shoeless Joe Transfigured on a Field of Dreams." Literature and Film Quarterly 23 (1995): 26-31.

Left & Center Field of Dreams http://www.ghostplayer.us/

Lieb, Frederick G. Encyclopedia Americana Online

Merlock, Ray. "Shoeless Joe: From Pickens County to the Field of Dreams." South Carolina Review 22.2 (1990): 68-76.

Nadel, Alan. Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997.

Nilsson, Joakim. "Take Me Back to the Ball Game: Nostalgia and Hegemonic Masculinity in Field of Dreams." Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Américaines 30.1 (2000): 52-72.

O'Brien, Tom. The Screening of America. New York: Continuum, 1990.

Oriard, Michael. Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982.

Oriard, Michael. Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Pellow, C. Kenneth. "Shoeless Joe in Film and Fiction." Aethlon 9 (1991): 17-23.

Rader, Benjamin G. American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.

Robinson, Phil Alden. "Field of Dreams: The Ending." Hopkins Review 1.4 (2008): 598-609.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

The Shoeless Joe Jackson Virtual Hall of Fame http://www.blackbetsy.com/

Travers, Peter. Review of Field of Dreams. Rolling Stone 21 April 1989.

Vanderwerken, David L., and Spencer K. Wertz. Sport Inside Out. Forth Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1985.

Walker, Joseph S. "The Catcher Takes the Field: Holden, Hollywood, and the Making of a Mann." The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays. Ed. J. P. Steed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Wilmington, Michael. "Sacrifices On A Field of Dreams." Rev. of Field of Dreams. Los Angeles Times 21 April 1989: 1.

Winkler, Scott A. "Is This Heaven? No, It's Iowa. -Or- The Avant-Garde in a Cornfield Cures What Ails You." Journal of Popular Culture 37.4 (2004): 704-18.

Wulf, Steve. "Diamond in the Rough." Sports Illustrated 1 May 1989: 81.