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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYanks, White Sox to play at 'Field of Dreams' in '20
Major league BaseballField of Dreams will become a big-league reality on Aug. 13, 2020, when the beloved 1989 baseball movie will spring to life in the Iowa cornfields. As announced Thursday, the White Sox and Yankees will stage the first-ever Major League game in the Hawkeye State, in a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark constructed in the corn on the Dyersville farm site where the classic film was shot.
MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO will be nationally broadcast on FOX at 7 p.m. ET. and, following the precedent of the now-annual Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pa., and this years MLB in Omaha at the NCAAs College World Series site, is the latest example of the game bringing itself to iconic American baseball venues outside of typical big league jurisdiction.
As a sport that is proud of its history linking generations, Major League Baseball is excited to bring a regular season game to the site of Field of Dreams, Commissioner Rob Manfred said. We look forward to celebrating the movies enduring message of how baseball brings people together at this special cornfield in Iowa.
[link:https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-white-sox-game-at-field-of-dream-site|Though Shoeless Joe Jackson will not, in fact, come to the game (unless, of course, the movies association with the spirit life really does come true), the White Sox franchise so central to his complicated legacy and its relatively close location to Iowa will naturally be involved. Played on a Thursday, the game will be considered a White Sox home date, followed by a Friday off-day before the two clubs resume their three-game series at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on that Saturday.
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Yanks, White Sox to play at 'Field of Dreams' in '20 (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2019
OP
The scene with Kevin Costner and Burt Lancaster was filmed in Galena, Illinois.....
ProudMNDemocrat
Aug 2019
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nycbos
(6,035 posts)1. People will come
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
brooklynite
(94,679 posts)3. But I'll bet they won't be charging $20...
nycbos
(6,035 posts)5. You would probably have to mortgage your house or sell a kidney to get a ticket.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)2. Awesome!! This is such a huge deal for Dyersville, which is just over
an hour north of where I live. I have no doubt it will be a smashing success!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)4. Loved the movie growing up.
And I still can't help get a little choked up when I hear, "Dad, want to have a catch?"
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)6. The scene with Kevin Costner and Burt Lancaster was filmed in Galena, Illinois.....
When they are walking down a historic downtown in Chisolm, Minnesota.
We have friends who live in Galena whom we see 3 to 4 times a year. Every time I am downtown going in and out of the shops there, I am reminded of that scene. Love Galena.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)7. Screw football. Baseball is a way to
get back our country. Just like in the movie clip here. Let's have nothing but "throw back" games and have the prices come down for a year. Let's think about the good things of our past and strain forward to get them back. Baseball.