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MAJOR League Baseball will pay a tribute to the iconic 1990 film Field of Dreams.
The Field of Dreams Game, as the MLB has called it, took place on August 12, 2021, at 7pm ET.
The organization held a game near the baseball field where the original movie was filmed.
Who is playing in the Field of Dreams game and where can I watch?
The New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will be going head to head at a game in Dyersville, Iowa.
The game can be watched on Fox or live on FuboTV with a paid subscription.
In an effort to honor the film’s era of the 1910s and 1920s, the Yankees’
and White Sox’s uniforms will mimic the time period from the movie.
The Field of Dreams is in Iowa Credit: AP
The MLB will not host the game at the same field the movie was filmed in, but a few fields down instead Credit: AP
The game at the Field of Dreams was originally set to take place in 2020 for the film’s 30th anniversary but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, the teams playing would have been the White Sox against the Cardinals.
The White Sox and Yankees were the original pairings, but coronavirus-driven restrictions on playing outside of paired geographic divisions did not allow that to happen.
How do I get tickets to the Field of Dreams Game?
Tickets for the game are not available on the MLB website.
The MLB held a public lottery for the opportunity to purchase tickets
but said the lottery was open to just those with Iowa zip codes.
However, some resales can cost up to $1,400, according to TickPick.
Lottery winners had the opportunity to purchase two tickets and one
parking pass. The stadium only holds 8,000 attendees and will be the
first MLB regular-season game ever played in the state of Iowa.
What is the Field of Dreams movie about?
The Field of Dreams movie starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones
is known as one of the most famous baseball films ever made.
The film is about an Iowa farmer hearing a mysterious voice one night
telling him to build a field.
The farmer, whose name is Ray, builds a baseball diamond on his land, supported by his wife, Annie.
Afterward, the ghosts of great players start emerging from the crops to play ball, led by “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Who is playing in the Field of Dreams game and where can I watch?
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A FIELD OF DREAMS IT WAS!
TIM ANDERSON WINS IT FOR THE @whitesox!!! pic.twitter.com/kkX4sRcgN6
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) August 13, 2021
Tim Anderson from Tuscaloosa, AL. It’s fitting #FieldOfDreamsGame won
by a walk-off homer by a player born and reared in the same great state that produced such players as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Satchel Paige, Ozzie Smith, Billy Williams, and others. Anderson, who was clearly having as much fun as anyone in attendance and had an earlier RBI double, danced his way around the bases and wiggled his hands around his neck as he headed for home and the celebratory dousing at the plate from his teammates.
Tim Anderson’s insanely cool walk-off home run in the ‘Field of Dreams’ game
FULL 9TH INNING from Field of Dreams! CRAZY final inning
between White Sox and Yankees! – YouTube
That sent the crowd of 7,832 back through the corn and to their cars after a light and fireworks show at the made-from-scratch stadium next to the filming site of the beloved 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner. Even the Yankees fans who made the trek could hardly have headed home anything but happy with the experience.
Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton each hit two-run homers for the Yankees in the top of the ninth off All-Star closer Liam Hendriks, as the movie-themed throwback event became a home run hitting contest into the cornfield.
This was precisely the thrill many players hoped aloud for prior to the night. There were eight long balls in all, two by Judge.
And it had a Hollywood finish, too, with the game-saving shot by Anderson.
So what if it was more from “The Natural” than “Field of Dreams”?
José Abreu hit the first drive into the sea of green stalks, and teammates
Eloy Jiménez and Seby Zavala followed him with homers for the White Sox.
League ERA leader Lance Lynn sidestepped a three-run homer by Judge
and a solo shot from Brett Gardner to finish five innings for the White Sox, remaining unbeaten in his last eight starts.
Jiménez had a three-run shot in the third inning. Then Zavala added a two-run homer in the fourth to hang seven runs on Yankees starter Andrew Heaney, who lasted five innings on this vintage summer night in farm country with the teams in 1919-style uniforms to match.
Costner started the evening with a star’s entrance, slowly walking out of the cornrows like Shoeless Joe Jackson and his ghost-like teammates did in the film before turning to watch the players do the same for their made-for-TV pregame introductions. Costner’s address to the fans included the obligatory question in ode to the famous line from the movie, “Is this heaven?”
No, it’s Iowa, but MLB will be back, as Commissioner Rob Manfred
promised for 2022, the teams still to be determined.
FAMILY FIRST
White Sox manager Tony La Russa missed the game, with bench coach
Miguel Cairo filling in, to attend the funeral for his sister’s husband in Florida. The 76-year-old La Russa would’ve fit right in at the site, with his team in vintage wear.
“I was raised to embrace the history of the game, and I think too often we lose parts of it,” he said earlier this week. “’Field of Dreams’ is a great movie, and it embraces everything about family and all the game’s all about.”
NOT QUITE MOONLIGHT GRAHAM
Both teams were allowed a 27th man on the roster, so the Yankees chose outfielder Estevan Florial and the White Sox summoned outfielder Danny Mendick. Florial was about as close as a player could come to Moonlight Graham, who got in only one major league game with the New York Giants in 1905, became a doctor in Minnesota and had a significant role in the movie plot. The 23-year-old Florial had 28 prior plate appearances for the Yankees this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole and LHP Jordan Montgomery, both on the COVID-19 list since Aug. 2 and 3, respectively, rejoined the team in Iowa and could be slotted back in the rotation this weekend.
White Sox: C Yasmani Grandal, on the injured list since July 6 with a torn tendon in his knee, went 2 for 3 with a walk Wednesday in the first game of
his rehab assignment with Double-A Birmingham.
Dwier Brown and Kevin Costner & MW (2) Dwier Brown – Bing
Kevin Costner ,Timothy Busfield, Dwier Brown at Field of Dreams 25th Anniversary – YouTube
Kevin Costner “Field of Dreams” 25 years later – YouTube
FIELD OF DREAMS TOUR – YouTube
Ray’s (Kevin Costner) dream comes true when he gets to have a game of catch with his father (Dwier Brown). FILM DESCRIPTION: “If you build it, he will come.” That’s the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, “he” seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is “Ease his pain.” He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salinger Esque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final “second-chancer” turns out to be much closer to Ray. That “magical” field in Dyersville, Iowa still draws thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year.
A Catch With Dad – Field of Dreams (9/9) Movie CLIP (1989) HD – YouTube
I keep seeing “have a catch” as a regional thing but just about everyone from ALL regions say the same thing: it’s a play catch.
You don’t “play catch”, catch isn’t a game. You “have a catch”. It doesn’t matter. People say “let’s play catch”. No one says “let’s have a catch” . Opposite for me – it was always let’s go play catch and never heard the phrase let’s have a catch….I saw this, of course, and it left me wondering once again: is “have a catch” some kind of regional expression? Growing up in Michigan we NEVER said such a thing, nor had even heard of it. You’d ask your dad if he wanted to go out and “PLAY catch.” The phrase “have a catch” ruined the entire movie for me. I grew up around 3 generations of baseball fanatics and never once heard that phrase.
The perfect entrance would have had @DwierBrown was the only one to walk in from the corn in full catcher’s gear, and first pitch from Costner.
Oh well, I can dream. I cry my eyes out every time during that scene thinking of playing catch with my dad. How did the two of you not throw out the first pitch to each other?!?!?!?!?! Loved your personal story in the documentary. Thanks for sharing it. Knowing it makes the movie even better.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like
a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all — what
once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray.
People will most definitely come.
Baseball Speech from Field of Dreams – People Will Come
Vin Scully recites famous ‘Field of Dreams’ speech
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Dwier Brown is back at ‘Field of Dreams’ with baseball, books, ghosts and a game between White Sox and Yankees! | WGN Radio 720 – Chicago’s Very Own
Moonlight Graham Dreams – YouTube
Interview with @DwierBrown #Baseball #MLB
Link to YouTube live HERE… https://youtu.be/k_P4wX-4nnM
“If You Build It: 30 Years of Field of Dreams” | Official Trailer | FOX Sports Films – YouTube
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Kevin Costner leads the Yankees and White Sox out of the cornfield at MLB at Field of Dreams! – YouTube
Yankees vs. White Sox Field of Dreams Game Highlights (8/12/21) | MLB Highlights – YouTube
Kevin Costner on arriving at the ‘Field of Dreams’ Diamond: ‘It was perfect’ | MLB ON FOX – YouTube
‘If You Build It They Will Come’ Field of Dreams Time-Lapse Is Pure Heaven – Feels Video | eBaum’s World (ebaumsworld.com)
2021 MLB on FOX Field of Dreams Game Intro – YouTube
‘If You Build It They Will Come’ Field of Dreams Time-Lapse Is Pure Heaven
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