Field of Dreams

So day two of my trip and its where they filmed the movie "Field of Dreams". Yes its still there and looks just like it did. And they don't charge any admission. This is quite refreshing. You can buy things in a little gift shop they had - I didn't. And you can pay to tour the inside of the house - which I did, but even that was reasonably priced.

I ran the bases, of course. I fielded some grounders. I walked into the corn, so I could then walk out. (If you've seen the movie, you'll know why I had to do that.) I pitched from the pitchers mound. Oh, that last one was disillusioning. I can't pitch. I have no accuracy or arm strength from that distance, which is only like 60 feet. I threw as hard as I could and it would get part way there or if I put a big rainbow arc on it, I could get it to the plate on the fly. I've never really thrown from a baseball mound before, but I guess I just assumed I could do it reasonably well. I cannot. I'm not whimpy. I can do 60 or 70 pushups at a time. I'm guessing most can't do that. But maybe pushup muscles are different from throwing muscles.


The inside was cool. The indoor scenes were filmed there. Sometimes movies film the outdoor scenes somewhere and the indoor on a lot in Hollywood. Our tour guide was dressed in an old-style White Sox uniform, which was awesome. I would love that job.

I'm glad I saw it this year. They have plans next year of leaving the original baseball field, but putting in a bunch of other baseball diamonds. They even plan on playing a major league game there. I think that will kind of ruin the whole thing, but I'm not in charge of that.

Seriously, I'm going to get some baseballs and mark of 60 feet from a wall and work on my pitching. I'm still holding out a slight hope for a call up from the Reds, but at this rate it won't be as a pitcher.