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The New York Times
From a cornfield in Iowa, the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will emerge Thursday to play on a new field near the original setting for the film “Field of Dreams.”
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The genius of “Field of Dreams,” and maybe the reason the film endures, is it knows it should not make sense. Voices in the cornstalks tell a farmer to build a baseball field for ghosts. Some people can’t see it. They are rational, so they don’t get it. It’s their loss. Major League Baseball will stage a real game here on Thursday, with the Yankees playing the Chicago White Sox, on a new field two Joey Gallo moonshots away from the original. Players will weave through the cornfield at the movie site and walk a path to their diamond. There are 8,000 seats, but none beyond the chain-link outfield walls. That’s all corn. “I’m excited about running through the cornfields,” said Liam Hendriks, the All-Star closer for the White Sox. “Who wouldn’t be?”More Related News