Ep. 6: The Five-Year Itch

Midnight Library of Baseball

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October 10, 202440 min
Baseball

Ep. 6: The Five-Year Itch

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Episode Notes

W.P. Kinsella never saw the father-son relationship as the central emotional story in his book, Shoeless Joe. This is just one of many revelations in Episode 6, where I follow the path of writer/director Phil Alden Robinson, who roamed the streets of Hollywood for years with the vision of what Shoeless Joe would become on the big screen. But it was this very struggle and years of failure that led to what many called a magical script.