If you build it …they will come

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 I wasn’t home last night — Drew and I had tickets to see the Ducks play the Maryland Blue Crabs — but when I came home, I found the video.




Field of Dreams, an iconic and unabashedly sentimental movie.  I remember sitting in the theater, 30 years ago, and crying when the ball players came out of the cornfield.  

Major League Baseball gave us a real game on that field of dreams.  A publicity stunt, of course, but what a stunt.  I cried when I saw the White Sox and the Yankees, in period uniforms, emerge from that cornfield.

Movies and sports.  They bring us together, they lift our spirits, they give us hope.

Sounds like it was a fun and exciting game, too.  Something worthy of the movie that inspired it.




Sigh.
As for the Ducks …they lost 11-0.  Not their best effort.

Comments

  1. bookwormAugust 14, 2021 at 8:48 AM

    I'm writing a Field of Dreams post this afternoon, because I was there, in 1995, and I have the t-shirt to prove it. I cried through some of the lookbacks. I wish I could have seen the pre game show. I only saw the first three innings. I DVR'd the rest and now all I am getting is a blank when I try to rerun it, so that highlights video will probably get me crying again.

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  2. Liz A.August 15, 2021 at 5:27 PM

    Two blog posts in a row about this, and I had no clue. Sounds like it was a great idea.

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