Whether you were in rural Dyersville or plugged in on the FOX broadcast, you were left inspired, stupefied, slack-jawed by the majesty of it all.
DYERSVILLE, Ia. — Let’s get this out of the way right now. Thursday night’s Field of Dreams game was a showcase, an extravaganza, a happening. You can’t even dream this stuff up, how magical this night was. The center of the sports universe, at least for one day, was smack dab in the middle of an Iowa cornfield way up here in northeast Iowa. Put plainly, baseball’s grand showing at the « Field of Dreams » movie site was our state’s greatest sports event ever. Yes, I said it. Ever. Don’t @ me. We’ve had wonderful college sports moments in this state. We’ve had wonderful lower-level professional sports in this state. But this was a big-league event, historic for Iowa. It all seemed unbelievable. But it was more than that. It was perfect. Field of Dreams recap: White Sox win on Tim Anderson’s thrilling walk-off home run Thousands of people came from many states to watch the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox play in an honest-to-goodness baseball game that actually meant something. This was an Iowa first, a regular season MLB baseball game here. It had to have a special finish, and it did. To end it, White Sox superstar Tim Anderson hammered a home run over the right-field fence into an ink-black country sky, the eighth and final cornfield shot of this wonderfully entertaining game. Chicago 9, New York 8. And a walk-off homer to boot. Really, does it get any better than that? More: ‘Every little detail, they got it’: MLB’s Field of Dreams ballpark ties together White Sox, Iowa history Millions more watched all over the world.
