Totem, Toronto, 1987, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-00-223129-8.  MMPB, 310 pages.  Very good plus; tiny corner bends, small scrape on front wrap; binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; gently read if at all.  Inscribed to prior owner on half-title page with signature 'Bill Kinsella’.  “Gideon Clarke is a man with a mission.  He wants to prove that the 1908 Chicago Cubs visited Big Inning, Iowa, to play a 2614-inning game against the Iowa Baseball Confederacy.  The only problem is that he can find no record of the contest, Big Inning or the Confederacy itself.  It is only when Gideon passes through a seam in the fabric of time that he discovers the secret of a game that was never played, a town no one remembers and a league that never existed.” (from rear wrap)