{"id":321575,"date":"2021-08-11T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-white-sox-making-own-field-of-dreams-sequel\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:00:13","slug":"yankees-white-sox-making-own-field-of-dreams-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-white-sox-making-own-field-of-dreams-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees, White Sox making own \u2018Field of Dreams\u2019 sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees, White Sox making own \u2018Field of Dreams\u2019 sequel<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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DYERSVILLE, Iowa \u2014 What first caught my eye were the wooden bleachers. The seats from which Terence Mann arises to deliver his \u201cPeople will come\u201d soliloquy. From which young Karin Kinsella falls moments later, requiring the services of Dr. Archibald \u201cMoonlight\u201d Graham \u2014 transforming from teenager to senior citizen \u2014 to save her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re original,\u201d Tom Mietzel, CEO of Go the Distance, which runs the facility, assured The Post later in a telephone interview. Same goes for the farmhouse behind them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps if you somehow haven\u2019t seen the 1989 film \u201cField of Dreams,\u201d<\/a> or if you watched it and it somehow wasn\u2019t your bag, then setting foot on these grounds \u2014 on a movie set, let\u2019s acknowledge \u2014 won\u2019t get your geek on. The idea of holding an actual Major League Baseball game<\/a> here might strike you as cheesy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of the countless people who bought into the film\u2019s messages of hope and redemption and cried at the ending, however? Then Thursday night\u2019s matchup of the Yankees and White Sox at a pop-up ballpark adjacent to the original movie diamond \u2014 just through a cornfield, naturally \u2014 will serve as a real-life sequel of sorts to the fictional original. Because, in a vacuum, holding a regular-season baseball contest on active farmland isn\u2019t much more absurd than ghost ballplayers emerging from a cornfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you can hold dreams and memories back from movies<\/a>, these things mean a lot,\u201d YES Network analyst (and former Yankee, of course) Paul O\u2019Neill said. \u201cIt\u2019s such a great idea. Such a cool thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never have imagined they\u2019d play a major league game there,\u201d said actor Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsella in the movie, \u201cand I couldn\u2019t be more excited about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown will join his cinematic son, Kevin Costner, the film\u2019s star, in pregame festivities that surely won\u2019t hold back on milking the movie\u2019s most popular elements. Fans will enter the premises via the original field, a tourist site since the movie\u2019s release and success, and walk through the corn to the Yankees-White Sox game. Those corn stalks, cultivated by MLB, will be as tall as 12 feet, which you\u2019ll be able to see through the mesh of the right field wall. Don\u2019t be surprised if the players themselves utilize the corn as an entry point, just like their fictional counterparts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The new MLB field in Dyersville, Iowa for the Yankees-White Sox Field of Dreams game.<\/figcaption>
MLB<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In all, MLB spent more than $5 million to construct and maintain the temporary ballpark, for which plans began last year, only for COVID-19 to cause a one-year postponement. Former Yankees general<\/a> manager Murray Cook, who specializes in helping baseball put on these events, said he utilized the backstop and bullpen seats, among other supplies, from the Yankees-Red Sox London Series of 2019. The stands will hold 7,911 fans, with Iowans getting access to about 2,500 of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to find these really cool, iconic locations, places that don\u2019t get to normally experience Major League Baseball,\u201d said Chris Marinak, MLB\u2019s chief operations and strategy officer. \u201cWe had one in Omaha, and Fort Bragg, and now our first game in Iowa. This one has a special sort of feeling to it because the movie itself was such a widely app<\/a>ealing movie. Even non-baseball fans watch that movie and love that movie because of that message and storytelling in the movie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It should only enhance the site\u2019s appeal that this remains an active farm, growing soybeans in addition to corn. Joe and Catherine Lansing purchased it in 1906 \u2014 the barn is believed to go back to around 1860 \u2014 and started a family there, although poor Catherine died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 (talk about the circle of life), and Joe\u2019s grandson Donnie ran the farm in the late 1980s when Sue Reidel, a volunteer for the Iowa film office, approached him with an idea: Universal Studios wanted to film a movie on his land, which they liked because of its look \u2014 especially that farmhouse \u2014 and because it was large enough to build a baseball field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An aerial view of the famous \u201cField of Dreams\u201d in Dyersville, Iowa. <\/figcaption>
Tribune News<\/a> Service via Getty I<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe kind of looked at her and thought, \u2018Boy, is she crazy or what?\u2019 \u201d said Becky Lansing, Don\u2019s wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t, naturally. The studio performed some construction on the house to make it more film-crew friendly, knocking down some walls (the house scenes were actually filmed there), and Don Lansing relocated to a nearby trailer to let the Hollywood people do their thing. When the film connected with the masses, the Lansings retained the field and turned it into a tourist attraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first year, we logged about 5,000 people,\u201d Becky Lansing said. \u201cIt continued to double in size, from five to 10 [thousand], 15, 30, 40, 50.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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General view of the Field of Dreams house.<\/figcaption>
MLB via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other Iowans saw even greater potential in the land, in people\u2019s thirst to connect with this film. In 2012, the Lansings sold it to a consortium of investors (called Go the Distance) led by Denise Stillman, who envisioned turning the field into a hotbed for youth baseball tournaments, with 18 fields added to the original (which wouldn\u2019t get touched). A spark for that plan, Stillman thought, would be to hold a major league game there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Field of Dreams isn\u2019t as much of a baseball field as a feeling,\u201d said Mietzel, who married Stillman in 2016. \u201cIt\u2019s a place where family and friends come together. That\u2019s how she got rolling on it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Stillman engaged with MLB officials on this wild-card idea, though, she contracted liver cancer in April 2017. She died in November 2018, and just a few months later, MLB and Go The Distance completed the agreement to hold the Yankees-White Sox game there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A year delayed, the Yankees and White Sox will play in Iowa this week.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMuch of what we\u2019re doing out here is her vision,\u201d Mietzel said. \u201cThis was her dream.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for the Lansings, whose family lived and worked here for over 100 years, \u201cThe sentiment behind the move is a pretty strong bond for us. Most people look at it as a mecca for baseball and for many other things as well,\u201d Becky Lansing said. \u201cWe have the added honor of having had it as a family legacy, which I\u2019m hoping now is secure in the history books of the social<\/a> fabric of our country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Field of Dreams, boosted by MLB\u2019s presence here, should welcome more than 200,000 visitors this year, Meitzel said, and there\u2019s increased optimism they\u2019ll accrue the necessary funds to put Stillman\u2019s full plan in motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for whether this game will be an MLB one-off or the launch to a tradition, Marinak said: \u201cWe\u2019ll see how things unfold this first time around. Obviously it\u2019s a lot of effort to keep the field up, plant the corn again. We\u2019ve got to make the call on whether this is a one-time experience or we can do something more with it. We\u2019ll figure that out after this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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MLB Field of Dreams sign in Iowa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBut this is a good example of the type of thing we can be doing in the future, an off-the-beaten-path type of game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It required quite a path to get here, into the past, into such rich emotions. This will mark a rare occasion in which you root for the Yankees and White Sox themselves, not protected by a script, to live up to their surroundings and fanfare.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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