Field of Dreams
The Night I Slept at the Field of Dreams
“People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.” -James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams, 1989 I will never forget the night I got to spend at the famous Field of Dreams. As a kid that was fully consumed in the game of baseball, I would watch just about any movie that involved it. But not all movies can be considered classics. For every Bull Durham, there’s a Mr. Baseball, and for every Field of Dreams...
My Favorite Baseball Movies Of All-Time
The unique thing about the game of baseball is that no two games are alike. Additionally, being that it is a global game, there are people from all walks of life. With scouts all over the world, it means there’s endless types of stories of how players were discovered. Lastly, the game has been going on for over 150 years so there has been ample opportunity for incredible rag-to-riches stories, especially during times of national crisis. This list is completely subjective. It is the movies that have had the biggest impact on my life. Here it goes: 10) Benchwarmers (2006) Alright I’m starting this off with a controversial one because this is not a traditional baseball movie about the big leagues. It’s purposely the opposite, but it’s right in my comedic wheelhouse and...
