MLB at Field of Dreams returns on Thursday, Aug. 11, when two of baseball’s most historic Clubs, the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, play a regular season game on a baseball field built in a cornfield next to the iconic movie location in Dyersville, Iowa. This year’s game will include new ceremonies and features designed to capture the magic of the setting for fans of all ages and celebrate baseball’s ability to link generations, a central theme of the movie.
MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO, which will air nationally on FOX, FOX Deportes, and the FOX Sports app at 7 pm, and its surrounding events will include:
Pre-Game and In-Game Presentation
Votto & Happ on Two-Way Microphone
Youth Game: ‘A Dream Fulfilled’
Minor League Baseball Game
MercyOne Dubuque Hospital Visit
USA Patriots Amputee Softball Team
This 2022 edition of MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO marks the second installment of the groundbreaking event following the dramatic contest played last August between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees in the first-ever Major League game played in Iowa. The Dyersville ballpark is the result of local support in the state and the teamwork of three decorated sports event and experience specialist companies all appointed by Major League Baseball: BaAM Productions, Populous and BrightView.
Last summer’s thrilling walkoff win for the Chicago White Sox over the New York Yankees delivered nearly six million viewers and marked the most-watched single regular season baseball game on any network since 1998. With kids ages 12-17, it was the most-watched game in 10 years. In May, MLB at Field of Dreams was named the 2021 “Sports Event of the Year” by the Sports Business Journal.
Building the Ballpark Required
· Iowa-based Musco Lighting is providing a first-of-its-kind LED system that will also spotlight much of the 159 acres of corn that surround the ballpark.
· The right field fence has a unique design that accentuates the corn through a fine mesh seven-foot high green chain link fence with offset vertical support posts – meaning the posts will actually be in the corn.
· The stalks that produce field corn will grow 10-12 feet high.
· A manual scoreboard will be in the corn just behind the right field fence.
Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, and Timothy Busfield. It was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Picture in 1990 and was selected to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2017. The 1989 film tells the story of Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, a husband and father who is tending to his cornfield when he hears a mysterious voice intone, “If you build it, he will come.” According to the American Film Institute (AFI), those words are the 39th top film quote of all time.
MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO is proudly sponsored and supported by Budweiser, Camping World, Capital One, Chevrolet, Corona, Dairy Queen, DEKALB Corn, Extreme Networks, Gatorade, GEICO, Hyperice, John Deere, Lysol, Mastercard, Mattress Firm , Mercy One, Mitel, Musco Lighting, T-Mobile, and Topps.
MLB at Field of Dreams follows other recent special events that have taken groundbreaking Major League games to non-traditional domestic locales, including the Fort Bragg Game in 2016, MLB In Omaha Presented by GEICO at the NCAA’s Men’s College World Series in 2019 and the annual Little League Classic Presented by GEICO in Williamsport (2017-19). The events at Fort Bragg and in Omaha were the first Major League games ever in North Carolina and Nebraska, respectively.
Field of Dreams is now available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital.
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