![]() Major League Baseball has announced that there will not be a 2023 major league game at the stadium due to construction in the area but has not ruled out future editions. Jenkins also threw the ceremonial first pitch to Bench. The Cubs and Reds then also entered from the cornfield beyond center field along with multiple National Baseball Hall of Fame members representing both teams - catcher Johnny Bench and shortstop Barry Larkin for the Reds along with second baseman Ryne Sandberg, outfielder Andre Dawson, pitcher Ferguson Jenkins and left fielder Billy Williams for the Cubs. Both Griffeys - who played for the Reds and also played together for the Seattle Mariners - were joined first by fathers and sons also playing catch. This time, the movie was referenced in the pregame ceremonies by Ken Griffey Jr. ![]() The game was also the most-watched regular season MLB game since 2005.Ī second Field of Dreams MLB game was played during the 2022 season on August 11th with the Cincinnati Reds - who beat the White Sox in the 1919 World Series that was marred by the Black Sox Scandal - facing the Chicago Cubs, with the Cubs winning 4-2. Anderson's was the White Sox's 15th walk-off home run against the Yankees in team history, with "Shoeless" Joe Jackson hitting the very first. The White Sox won 9-8 on a 2-run walk-off home run by shortstop Tim Anderson after the Yankees came back and took the lead in the top of the 9th inning with home runs from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. However, the game was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and was played on August 12, 2021.Īs part of the pregame ceremonies, Kevin Costner walked onto the field through the surrounding cornfield, followed soon after by the White Sox and Yankees players and managers in an echo of the film scene. The scene neatly introduces the name of the 60s radical writer (which in the source book, Shoeless Joe, was JD Salinger – notoriously publicity-shy author of Catcher in the Rye), and it’s in the Seminary Library of the University of Dubuque, University Avenue, that Ray Kinsella researches the reclusive Terence Mann (though the exterior shot is of the University’s Van Vliet Hall).The Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees were scheduled to play a regular season MLB game on the major league ballpark adjacent to the movie set in Dyersville. ![]() The school, where Annie Kinsella ( Amy Madigan) stands up against censorship at the PTA meeting, is Drexler Elementary School, Third Avenue in Farley, on Route 20 about six miles east of Dyersville. Take along your bat and ball and play out your dreams at the Field of Dreams Movie Site, 28995 Lansing Road, Dyersville. It’s estimated that, within three years of the film’s release, 60,000 people had made the pilgrimage to Dyersville. But, just as in the movie, visitors came, and the field was restored. The diamond – constructed for the film – straddled two properties, and after filming, half of it was ploughed up and returned to farming. The long-reclusive Salinger was famous for protecting his. The baseball field that Ray Kinsella ( Kevin Costner) is impelled to build still exists, about four miles northeast of Dyersville, just off Highway 20, west of Dubuque. In the novel, Terrence Mann was identified as the real-life, then very-much living author of Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Most of the film is shot in the area around Dubuque, the oldest city in Iowa, at the northern edge of the state, separated from Illinois and Wisconsin by the Mississippi River. The unlikely supernatural baseball feelgood weepie has provided Iowa with a major tourist attraction. “If you build it, he will come.” promised the mysterious voice. Field of Dreams location: the magical baseball diamond: Lansing Farm, Dyersville, Iowa | Photograph: Flickr © Lumberjacklukee ![]()
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