 It's been believed by some to belong to Costner or Liotta, while the book's author W. P. Kinsella stated he was told it was Ed Harris (Madigan's husband).Then-teenagers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the Fenway Park scene.Phil Alden Robinson read "Shoeless Joe" in 1981 and liked it so much that he brought it to producers Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon.