In August of 2020, the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will be playing a regular-season game at the “Field of Dreams” site in Iowa.
If you build it, they will come! In the 2020 real-life version of the 1989 movie, ’they’ means at least 8,000 people. Between now and game time, crews are building a temporary, 8,000 seat ballpark to accommodate the game. Construction begins on Tuesday.
Officially, the “Field of Dreams” game is happening on August 13th, 2020 on Fox. Dimensions of the ballpark were not shared, but the field will include a pathway through the cornfield for fans and the right-field wall will be broken up by windows to show the cornstalks beyond the wall.
If you don’t recall the original 1989 Fantasy Sports Drama, Wikipedia describes it as-
Ray Kinsella, a novice corn farmer, lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their Iowa farm. In the opening narration, he discusses his troubled relationship with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan. While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, “If you build it, he will come.” Ray also sees a vision of a baseball diamond in his field. Annie is skeptical, but agrees to him plowing part of the corn under to build a baseball field, despite the financial repercussions it will cause. As he builds, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Months pass and one night a uniformed man appears on the field whom Ray recognizes as Shoeless Joe Jackson, a deceased baseball player his father idolized. Thrilled to play baseball again, Joe asks if others can play there and later returns with the seven additional players who were banned in the 1919 scandal.
