"Magic Time," available for the first time in the U.S., is the story of Mike Houle, a college all-star whose baseball career is on the skids until his agent offers him a second chance in the Iowa Cornbelt League. Things turn around for Mike in the green fields of Grand Mound, Iowa-only there seems to be more to this odd little town and its extraordinary baseball team than meets the eye. The mystery begins when Mike suspects that when the good citizens of Grand Mound lure young men into their small town, it's not just baseball on their minds . . .

"Magic Time" is vintage Kinsella. It is a novel of hope and promise and baseball that becomes humorous, enchanting fiction.