Perched atop her car less than a mile from the farm site with binoculars in hand, Jes Henize hoped to catch a view of the house from the movie Wednesday after planning to visit on her first trip to Iowa on a cross country trip from Georgia to Oregon. The cheapest resell tickets were available on StubHub in the week before for around $1,000 each, and some prime seats still had asking prices up to $10,000. The lucky chosen few were able to purchase up to two tickets and one parking pass.
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Tickets for the game were allotted via a lottery limited to fans who have Iowa zip codes. Joshua MellinĬonstructed first in 2019, dismantled in 2020, and rebuilt this year for the game, MLB Stadium was built with seating for a potential capacity of up to 8,000 people, or nearly double the town of Dyersville’s entire population. Locals hope it will become an annual event. The new field was rebuilt this year for the special game. To access the new field, currently dubbed “MLB Stadium,” attending fans entered at the original Field of Dreams from the film, where they could dip themselves in “magic waters,” look around, even have a catch on the field, before being summoned by some familiar voices to pass through the centerfield cornfield on a path that leads to the MLB Stadium, complete with a corn maze in the shape of MLB’s silhouette logo separating the two fields.
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Normally, the original field the movie was filmed on is open from dawn to dusk for shag batting practice, to have a catch or see “the greatest show on dirt,” the Ghost Player games (a Harlem-Globetrotters-meets-baseball comedy routine hosted on scheduled Saturdays for free that’s returning this month after a two-year pandemic hiatus.) To mark the occasion they decided to have a “last catch” together and vowed to retire from baseball together, as father and son. Yankees fans Mike Dempsey and his father Frank, a Vietnam veteran, drove out from New York for the game to celebrate Mike’s 50th birthday, after he’d played in a tournament at the site a few years previously. Kevin Costner, who starred in the film, was at the new stadium on Wednesday before Iowa's first MLB game.
In the film, Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer, portrayed by Costner, hears a voice beckoning through the swaying cornfields: “If you build it, he will come.” Convinced carving a baseball diamond into the crop will summon the spirit of legendary ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson, he sets out to do just that with the support of his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan) and daughter Karin (Gaby Hoffman), despite the financial hardship it incurs. Kinsella’s novel “Shoeless Joe,” the 1989 film “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner is considered by many to be one of the finest sports movies of all time for how it captures the timeless nature and universal appeal of baseball. It’s the place where dreams came true for baseball fans, as the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees emerged from the cornfields to play the first official Major League Baseball game in the state on Thursday night on a specially built field next to the original “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville.īased on W.
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