Field of Dreams

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No, it wasn't. They're not playing on that "field."
I know that and everyone knows that. It's just a fun marketing ploy for one game. Let them have their fun, let the locals scalp their tickets. It can't be any worse than baseball in London.
 

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While MLB doesn’t count the National Association as a major league these days, as someone who does: There’s one total top level of professional baseball win in Iowa: A 15-2 drubbing by the Keokuk Westerns over the St. Louis Red Stockings, 5/6/1875.



I love-hate the movie. Love the dad connection, hits home. I hate the baseball parts and the constant hypocrisy throughout the film by basically every single character.
 

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With all the cut aways they do, they never seem to miss that fat pitcher jostling his cup

Also, if your going to do old timely LARPing baseball maybe lose the walk to the plate shitty music.

I do admit, minus the excessive cup grabbing, this has a cool look.
 

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The cradle of the game.
I think the "barn boards" ringing the field are actually a woodgrain print on PVC that's wrapped around whatever wall is actually there.
 

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It kind of makes me wonder what actually did happen to Terence Mann when we went off into the cornfield with that group of ghost players.
Was he dead when Ray kidnaps him in Boston? The scene at the motel where Mann learns his dad called the police and said he's missing implies he's alive (or was until very recently). I assumed he died when he wandered off into the cornfield? And was going to return a ghost to deliver his article/book.

Edit: and yea, I realize you're wondering what happened when he wandered off with a notably white group of ballplayers.
 

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It sucks that Abreu couldn’t defect to the U.S until he was 27. He probably would have Hall of Fame numbers by now if he could have came here at 21.
 

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The game is pretty much the same as 100 years ago, Joe?

Yeah, accepted integration on a full scale sure was nothing. I usually genuinely like Buck but this was a bad look.