Saturday 28th December 2024

Tonight’s Field of Dreams game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox in Dyersville will be the first regular season Major League Baseball game played in Iowa. The League considered using the field created for the 1989 movie, but the dimensions were limited, so a new ballpark was built next to it. Murray Cook is one of the lead designers of the ballpark, where eight-thousand fans who won tickets through a lottery will gather. He says 159 acres of corn was planted around the field this spring and it’s as high as it was in the movie.

First pitch is scheduled for 6:15 p.m.