A game is played and Graham finally gets his turn at bat. Arriving at the farm, they see various all-star players have arrived, fielding a second team. At 14, after reading one of Mann's books, Ray stopped playing catch with his father, and they became estranged after he mocked John for having "a hero who was a criminal." Ray admits that his greatest regret is that his father died before they could reconcile. Ray later tells Mann that his father dreamed of being a baseball player then tried to make him pick up the sport instead. During the drive back to Iowa, Ray picks up young hitchhiker Archie Graham, who is looking for a baseball team to join. Ray finds himself in 1972, encountering an elderly Graham, who says he happily left baseball for a satisfying medical career. They drive to Minnesota, learning that Graham, who was a physician, had died years earlier. Mann also admits to hearing the voice and seeing the scoreboard. There Ray hears the voice urging him to "go the distance", seeing statistics on the scoreboard for Archie "Moonlight" Graham, who played in one game for the New York Giants in 1922 but never got to bat. Mann, who has become a disenchanted recluse, agrees to attend one game. When Ray and Annie have identical dreams about Ray and Mann attending a game at Fenway Park, Ray finds Mann in Boston. Ray deduces the voice was referring to Mann, who had named one of his characters "John Kinsella" and had once professed a childhood dream of playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ray and Annie attend a PTA meeting, where she argues against someone who is trying to ban books by Terence Mann, a controversial author and activist from the 1960s. The voice, meanwhile, urges Ray to "ease his pain."
He warns the couple they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land. Annie's brother, Mark, can't see the players. Several months pass, and just as Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless Joe reappears, asking if others can play, and returns with the seven other Black Sox players. Believing in him, Annie lets him plow under part of their corn crop to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.Īs Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come." He sees a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (who in real-life died in 1951) standing in the middle. Troubled by his broken relationship with his late father, John, a devoted baseball fan, Ray fears growing old without achieving anything. Ray Kinsella lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa. For other people with similar names, see Terrence Mann (disambiguation).
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Then in 2011, the Lansings sold their property to Go the Distance Baseball, LLC, which still owns the “Field of Dreams Movie Site.” The company plans to build up the site as a premier youth baseball and softball destination while still preserving the idyllic cornfield."Terence Mann" redirects here. In 2007, the Lansings would later buy out the Ameskamps’ portion. After the film, both families kept promoting their sides of the field.
Yet, in the end, the baseball field was kept intact.Īccording to a Des Moines Register article, Universal Studios developed the baseball field on the properties of two farm owners - the Lansings and the Ameskamp family - to make the film a famous place. As the film progresses, Ray begins to engage more with these players–among them, actor Burt Lancaster in his final film role–but his farm and personal life begin to suffer. He is beckoned by what he hears - “If you build it, he will come.”Īfter Ray creates this field, ballplayers from the sport's past begin to emerge from the cornfield to play a game. Kinsella’s 1982 novel, “Shoeless Joe.” The film version has Kevin Costner as Iowa-based farmer Ray Kinsella, who is encouraged by a lingering voice to transform part of his family farm’s cornfield into a baseball field. According to IMDB, this Universal Pictures movie, starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, and James Earl Jones, is based on W.P.
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