In the 1989 classic Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner plays an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious vote saying, “If you build it, he will come.” This leads him to have a vision of a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield, and so he decides to listen to the voice, build a baseball field, and then the spirits of dead baseball players like Shoeless Joe Jackson start playing there. It’s a wonderful film that is admittedly some peak Reagan-era nostalgia, but I love it anyway. The baseball field is really there, but surprisingly, it has never …
MLB announces the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox will play in the Field of Dreams game in August 2020, taking place in Iowa.