As of now, the Chicago White Sox are still scheduled to play the New York Yankees at the Field of Dreams movie site. Here’s an idea on how that should go down.
If you build it, they will come. If they’re permitted to, of course.
Though there was much hype surrounding the 2020 Chicago White Sox season, there’s now a legitimate possibility that there won’t be a single Sox game played in the first year of the decade.
The South Siders entered the year and decade as playoff contenders but much like the ’94 Sox in the strike-shortened season, they may not even get a chance at postseason baseball.
We won’t go into detail as basically everything on your timeline, your television and your mind at all times is nothing but the effects of COVID-19 on sports and literally every single aspect of life.
But in addition to the meaningful baseball arriving in Bridgeport for the first time in nearly a decade, Sox fans were also excited at the opportunity to watch their team play in heaven. No, not the other side of the Pearly Gates, and not the intersection of 35th and Shields.
Iowa.
For the first time ever, Major League Baseball is coming to Dyersville, Iowa. The tiny Northeast Iowa town of just over 4,000 people has etched itself deep into the hearts of baseball fans around the world for its part in the Academy Award nominated baseball motion picture Field of Dreams.
The film includes fictional portrayals of members of the 1919 Black Sox, most notably Shoeless Joe Jackson, and includes one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.
You know, the one where James Earl Jones talks about how baseball is part of our nation’s history and its future?
This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.
That line hits harder than Luis Robert right now.