The Kevin Costner stared in the 1989 classic Field of Dreams, which he plays an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice which leads him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield – a place where the spirits of dead baseball players like Shoeless Joe Jackson start to play.
The film was shot on a farm site in Dyersville, Iowa and now the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will play a game at the field around this time next year – August 13th 2020 to be exact. A temporary, 8,000-seat ballpark will be built at the site to accommodate the first major league game played in Iowa.
“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,” said MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. ” We look forward to celebrating the movie’s enduring message of how baseball brings people together at this special cornfield in Iowa.”
Construction on said park begins this coming Tuesday and the setup will include a pathway through the cornfield for fans, while the right-field wall will be broken up by windows to show the cornstalks beyond the wall.
Is this heaven?@Yankees–@WhiteSox, see you in Iowa on 8.13.20. pic.twitter.com/5GGbH7TWuq
— MLB (@MLB) August 8, 2019
