Field of Dreams
The sprawling eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams” are being sold to a company that will preserve the site’s baseball legacy, the owners announced Sunday. [1]
DYERSVILLE, Iowa - The sprawling eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams” are being sold to a company that will preserve the site’s baseball legacy, the owners announced Sunday. [2]
The Oak Lawn couple, longtime fans of the movie “Field of Dreams,” announced Sunday that their investment group has purchased the Iowa farm where the classic 1989 film was shot. [3]
Don and Becky Lansing said they have accepted an offer from Mike and Denise Stillman and their company, Go the Distance Baseball LLC, which will develop the site near Dyersville as a baseball and softball complex. [2]
While walking in his cornfield, novice farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice that whispers, “If you build it, he will come”, and sees a baseball diamond. [4]
And in Dyersville, Iowa, at the century-old Lansing family farm with its quaint, and oh so recognizable house, baseball still ranks as a favorite pastime for all ages. [5]
The Stillmans said they plan to preserve the iconic diamond while building about a dozen other fields and an indoor training dome on the 193-acre property, turning the land into a Midwestern hub for youth baseball and softball practice and tournaments. [3]
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come. [6]
The film stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster in his final motion picture. [4]
“It is truly one of the most special places in the U.S. for baseball,” said Mike Stillman, 42, a White Sox season ticket holder and the managing partner at Querrey and Harrow, a Chicago law firm. [3]
The Stillmans’ plan for the property includes preservation of the existing buildings and development of “All-Star Ballpark Heaven,” described as a complex including fields for baseball and softball tournaments and an indoor training facility. [2]
‘We’ve always thought that the Midwest never had a great site for the type of complex that hosted [youth] travel baseball and competitive play,’ Stillman said. [...] The new owners have hired Chicago White Sox ’sod father’ and chief groundskeeper Roger Bossard to design the ball fields to Major League Baseball quality. [7]
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Sources:
[1] ‘Field of Dreams’ Property in Eastern Iowa Sold - ABC News
[2] ‘Field of Dreams’ property in Iowa sold - NYPOST.com
[3] ‘Field of Dreams’ property sold; complex planned - chicagotribune.com
[4] Field of Dreams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Field of Dreams Movie Site - Tourism Info - Baseball
[6] Field of Dreams (1989) - IMDb
[7] Chicago area couple buy ‘Field of Dreams’ site - Chicago Sun-Times
[8] Buyers of Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’ site plans to offer …