Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "Sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (philadelphia inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of gideon clark, a man on a quest. He is out to pr...Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "Sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (philadelphia inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of gideon clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago cubs traveled to iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the iowa baseba bearing w.p.