Field Uncategorized Field of Dreams game: Watch Kevin Costner’s spine-tingling intro speech – CNET [CNET] August 14, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology They built it and Costner came out of the corn for real at this memorable MLB baseball game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox. View Article on CNET Enlarge Image Inspired by the 1989 movie, Major League Baseball built a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark at the farm in Dyersville, Iowa, where the movie was filmed. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox played a real professional MLB game Thursday. So who won? Under the beautiful Iowa night sky, Tim Anderson capped the ninth inning by smashing one of the game’s several home runs into the cornfield, winning the game 9-8 for the White Sox. CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games. The game was postponed from 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, so the event and its opening ceremony had an extra poignancy as an opportunity for 7,832 people to gather and enjoy the simple pleasure of a ballgame. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox emerge from the corn onto the Field of Dreams. Ron Vesely/Getty Images Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on the novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella, the Oscar-nominated Field of Dreams starred Costner as a farmer who hears voices in his head telling him to plow his cornfield into a baseball diamond. The cornfield-ballfield attracts the spirits of baseball players involved in World Series match-fixing in the infamous 1919 Black Sox scandal. The MLB has promised a return to Iowa in 2022, although the current disruption caused by the delta variant is a stark warning that the pandemic is far from over. Movies coming in 2021 from Netflix, Marvel, HBO and more See all photos +62 More Spread the word!Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)