Ralph–though I don’t follow baseball I do face the following about once a month, when I am checking out at a store or something and the clerk gets a gander at my name on the credit card–“Say…, Kinsella, …. isn’t that….” “yeah yeah, the guy in the Field of Dreams movie, Ray Kinsella” I interject, trying to speed up checkout time. Then I brace for the inevitable followup question — “are you related?” What?–to a fictional character? However, it is based on WP Kinsella’s novel. There are Kinsellas all over Ireland (same Celtic root as for Kinsley), but we’re fairly uncommon here. We’re all related, if we go back far enough, eh?

The Best of Stephan Kinsella