August 12, 2021 – Major League Baseball comes to the Field of Dreams movie site with the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox playing to a SRO crowd of 8,000.
In a testament to W.P. Kinsella’s baseball story – Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa – Major League Baseball hosted its first-ever game at the Field of Dreams movie site located just outside of Dyersville, Iowa. Two of baseball’s most tradition-steeped teams, the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees played in a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark carved out of the cornfields where director Phil Alden Robinson brought W.P. Kinsella’s words to life with the 1989 movie – Field of Dreams.
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