To mark the occasion they decided to have a "last catch" together and vowed to retire from baseball together, as father and son. 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 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.
The new field was rebuilt this year for the special game. Locals hope it will become an annual event. Constructed first in , dismantled in , and rebuilt this year for the game, MLB Stadium was built with seating for a potential capacity of up to 8, people, or nearly double the town of Dyersville's entire population.
Tickets for the game were allotted via a lottery limited to fans who have Iowa zip codes. The lucky chosen few were able to purchase up to two tickets and one parking pass. 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.
Unaware of the game, she "just got lucky and found out the White Sox and Yankees were playing, by pure coincidence. The new stadium illuminated on Wednesday night before the game. A dream fulfilled. All the attention is a much needed boon for the rural ballpark recovering from diminished visitors during the Covid pandemic. The city's three hotels were booked full for the game months in advance and stores stocked up with souvenirs, but the hope is the fanfare around the game will reignite passions around the movie and tourism to Dyersville for years to come.
Shelly Kalb, the general manager of the Comfort Inn Dyersville near Field Of Dreams, says despite the fact they've been booked up for over a year her phone still has not stopped ringing, and they're already booked for the same dates next year in anticipation the game will become an annual affair.
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Although the story of its discovery behind the scenes of the movie is fascinating in its own right. The new stadium, on the other hand, has an occupancy of 8, and will at least partially be filled by Iowans who won their tickets through a resident-only lottery system. The new stadium bears striking resemblance to Comiskey Park, which was home to the White Sox from through Bullpens for both teams are also located beyond the center-field wall, just like at Comiskey.
When the two teams take the field, they will be playing in a park that extends feet to left and right field, feet to center and feet to the power alleys, according to MLB. This stadium compares most similarly to Busch Stadium to left, to center, to right and Truist Park to left, to center, to right among the current fields. The stadium was designed to resemble Comiskey Park, but the dimensions do not mirror those of the original or remodeled stadium.
The original Comiskey Park, which opened in , went feet out to either foul pole and feet to center. The edition went feet to either end and feet to center, which also would have been among the largest stadiums in One of the reasons MLB is not playing the game in the original ballpark is because of how small it is.
When Ray Kinsella built his field, he was clearly hoping for a hitter-friendly environment. The park goes feet to left field, feet to center and feet to right field. The left and center field distances would both be the shortest in the majors, while feet to right is the fourth shortest, behind only Dodger Stadium , Fenway Park , Oracle Park and Yankee Stadium Plus, without a fence in the outfield, anything hit hard into the gap would seemingly be destined for a ground-rule double.
This game would wind up as a high-scoring affair if it was played on the current Dyersville, Iowa field. If fans want to check out the original park, however, they can walk through a path in the cornfields from the temporary stadium out to the park of the movie set. Visitors have been coming to the field since at no charge.
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