‘Field Of Dreams’ Game Features Drama, Nostalgia, And Kevin Costner In A Starring Role

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They played the first major league baseball game tonight in Iowa, won by the Chicago White Sox in dramatic fashion, 9-8, on a walk-off home run.There were eight home runs in the game, all of them landing in the corn fields surrounding the 8,000-seat, special-purpose stadium built for the game near the original movie set.

Tonight’s game featured a wild and wooly ninth inning, in which the Yankees staged a dramatic comeback from four runs down, only to fall in the next inning when the home team White Sox matched them and surged back.While baseball was the platform, something deeper was going on.

It wasn’t heaven, it was Iowa, as they said in the film. But the original film was more about the connections baseball builds in families,