37 pages • 1 hour read
W.P. KinsellaShoeless Joe
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Chapter 4: “The Oldest Living Chicago Cub”Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 4 Summary
Ray, Salinger and Archie Graham travel together through Iowa. They stop at Minneapolis to explore a baseball field at night. Later, while going toward Iowa City, Ray stops at the Bishop Cridge Friendship Center, where his friend, ninety-one-year-old Eddie Scissons, lives. Ray invites Eddie to his farm to show him the baseball field. Ray has received another message while at Metropolitan station, in Bloomington: “with the ambiguousness of a true oracle, the voice spoke of sharing and betrayal in a way that I knew meant Eddie Scissons” (150).
When they reach the farm, Ray finds that his twin brother Richard has come to pay him a visit. Ray has not seen his twin brother for over twenty years. Richard works as a barker for a carnival that is passing through Iowa City. Annie tells Ray that Mark has been getting more and more aggressive about buying the farm. At night, Ray finally meets Richard, who tells him that he is seeing a woman named Gypsy. Ray takes his other friends for a tour of the baseball field at the farm. He knows he will only be able to give the answers to their questions about the baseball field and Shoeless Joe, when the 
