One of my favorite movies of all time is Field of Dreams. Being a kid and a baseball fan, it was easy to love the movie as soon as I saw the preview. I remember watching the movie dozens of times as a kid, and still to this day when it comes on TV, I can’t seem to get myself to change the channel away from it.
Seeing it for sale again makes me miss those days without a care in the world other than to get done with school and play catch with my brothers. Hard to believe it’s been over twenty years.
When the movie came out in 1989 I was living in Roseburg, Oregon, one of the furthest places from any type of Major League Baseball, or so it seemed at least. There has always been something special about this era of my life. Even in the things that bring me joy in the tinyest of ways seem to have roots in this time of my life. Aside from the catalog of great quotes from the movie there was much more to baseball inthis time of my life…