Emphasis Preaching Journal

In his novel, Shoeless Joe, Ray Kinsella hears a voice but it isn't a voice from heaven. Rather it is a voice over a loudspeaker, which prompts Ray the farmer/insurance salesman, to build a baseball field on his Iowan farm, where Shoeless Joe Jackson could once again patrol left field. The voice, which only Ray could hear, prompted him to kidnap writer J. D. Salinger and take him to a Red Sox game at Fenway, then to traverse the country resurrecting other infamous Chicago Black Sox players.