Having A Catch with My Dad at Field of Dreams - Movie Location House Tour & Moment I’ll Never Forget
Field of Dreams Catch with my Dad May 2021
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today's adventure brings us down this
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road a couple miles on the outskirts of
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dyersville iowa
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usually well certain times of the year
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there are corn stalks on either side of
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this road
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right now however during may
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no court but the field of dreams movie
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site
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is straight ahead about two miles
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they built it wait what's the trick
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we're coming if you if you build it
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he or they will come depending on what
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portion
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if you build it
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the farmhouse was here way before the
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movie production crew
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now it as far as i know it's not used as
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a personal residence
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and they left the field up the field is
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still
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down there there are some people playing
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baseball
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at the field sure
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i was here three or four years ago
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and i thought we should i'm with my dad
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now
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it is a it is almost like a father and
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son movie especially towards the end the
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whole purpose
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kevin costner building the field so he
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could reunite with his
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father at the end
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yep so i think it really does make sense
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that we should have we have done this
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detour
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to head to the field of dreams field
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open between nine and six
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every day and even if the tours of the
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farmhouse are not happening
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every day rain or shine the field is
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open
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for free anyone can come out here toss
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the ball around
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now i say that but i also am seeing a
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twenty dollar
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as terence mann says twenty dollars
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suggested donation
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okay got the terrence mann quote
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there 20
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there is someone here at the little
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station terrence mann played by
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james earl jones
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oh look at this you could be a sponsor
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for forty dollars you can get some
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official infield soil for a hundred
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dollars
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a wall of honor listing on the website
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and for a thousand dollars
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a complimentary overnight stay and a
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picnic table plaque
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welcome everyone adam the woo here with
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my dad today
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number seven day seven of this road trip
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are you tuckered out yet yeah pretty
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tucker we've been going pretty strong we
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have covered a lot of miles this was a
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okay we're four or five six hours out of
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the way
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total from going up to dyersville
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you remember the film i do i remember
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the film in fact
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we were talking about vhs and eufaula
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and renting vcrs that was one of the
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movies
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that we used to rent and now you're
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standing here
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in the field of dreams the field of
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dreams ah
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pretty cool they do a tour right here is
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the gift shop
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and we kind of teased it a little bit
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yesterday by
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tossing the baseball around at mickey
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mantle's house
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we have the gloves in the car the whole
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purpose of that was to warm up our arms
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because we're going to share a
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father-son moment hopefully on the field
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they are playing a game but close enough
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to the field
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and throw the baseball on the field we
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will how often does that happen
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never the answer is never hey dad
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want a pitch
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hey dad want to have a catch want to
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have a catch
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is that it something like that should i
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should ask you
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hey dad you want to have a catch
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yeah i'd love to am inviting you to join
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me
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and my dad show you now the tour is
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about to begin
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inside the house cost is 20 per person
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before heading up there in a few moments
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you hear some cheering over from the
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field
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went inside the store itself
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inside the store they do have the james
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earl jones
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what he was stating there along the
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bleachers kind of written right here as
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well as
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quite a few t-shirts inside that you
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could purchase
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some hats and other accessories on the
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way out i'll probably get a couple and
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take them home as a souvenir now as the
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recording of this it is sunday
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and appears to be an impromptu team
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out here of some sort playing playing a
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game
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this is open to anyone who wants to show
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up and they are taking full
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accessibility of that i'm hoping that
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after the tour it will kind of subside a
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little bit and can go
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on the mound and the home plate and kind
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of toss the ball around the same area if
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that does not happen
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it can go over in that area or maybe
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even over here as long as we're on
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is this heaven no it's iowa
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that's the quote it says this heaven
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said no
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it's iowa
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and the corn the corn fields
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has been mowed down because may is not
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the time
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for corn the so this the bleacher scene
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which we were watching some of the some
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of the clips earlier just to refresh our
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memories
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that is where his daughter fell off of
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and moonlight graham went over stepped
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over the
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side of this field line and
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became an old man back from young to oh
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he could never go back
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once you cross that line you can never
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go back i think that might be a metaphor
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for something
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a baseball ism a baseball ism
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field of dreams-ism
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there's a lot of layers to that movie i
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do believe this is a recreation
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don't know if it's the same pieces of
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wood oh someone has left a hot dog
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they've probably served
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hot dogs and chips someone's left their
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hot dog right there
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was he sitting on i think he was sitting
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on the front
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james earl joe's was sitting on the
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front yeah when he started that quote
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the front goes up here kevin costner was
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up here james
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jones was down here you should recreate
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the james earl jones
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sitting moment it's a it's a long spiel
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so you probably won't get the quotes
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completely don't fall over don't fall
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over
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move like graham i have to moonlight
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grandma i have to show up and help you
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out
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they definitely will come ray they
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definitely will come
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that was good
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we just definitely came we're here
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they'll bring
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twenty dollars right yeah they'll say
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can we look around
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they'll reach into their wallets ray
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they won't even know why
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that's it that you're getting it and
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they'll hand you one he's all coming
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back to you now
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yes they will come they they definitely
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will come
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nailed it out by over in that area
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second build the left field the left
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field is where it was grown up
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all of them went in and out and there's
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a second field over there
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they have built another field adjacent
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to that
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and supposedly last year 2020 it didn't
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happen
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got postponed to this year there are
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going to be two professional major
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league teams playing on property not at
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to feel the dreams
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field but the one of the adjacent fields
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that was built over there
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and i believe the white sox are gonna be
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don't quote me on that but i think the
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white sox
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are gonna be playing over there major
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league baseball for the first time in
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dyersville iowa that's cool
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mlb you still do it until they're on the
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quote
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they'll reach into their wallet tray
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the way the tour works is you walk up to
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the porch you meet on the porch
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that's where you pay the money not in
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so we're going to go wait up here for a
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few moments until it begins
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wait at the gate so don't go up to the
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porch
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you can also book a tour from your
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mobile device
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that's what that science has at the end
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of the film all the cars
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pulling down well there comes a car now
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in
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they built it that car is heading in
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coming down the the the road and that
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aerial shot
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as they're having the father and son as
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they were panning out
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panning way up like a helicopter angle
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you could see all the cars pulling in
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because he didn't know if he was going
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to be able to afford to keep the house
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because he had plowed down his crop
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that's funny until you said that it he
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says twenty dollars in the movie and
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they charge twenty dollars that's what
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the sign said
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oh that's you know i didn't put two and
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two together i was reading the quotes
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everything's twenty dollars it's twenty
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dollars for the tour
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donation twenty dollar donation
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so you don't technically have to but
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it's a 20 donation and a 20
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fee to do the tour now you can come on
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the field and goof around for nothing
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but they ask a 20 right
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that's i'm sure that's upkeep and so
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forth
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they would accept more than twenty
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dollars if you searches you have to
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take your shoes off to walk in here or
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you can put these little
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we have blue booties on i'm about to
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take those off
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okay not allowed to go upstairs
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now this is harvey no
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there's another tv okay this is this is
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the movie this is
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the james stewart right let's do it
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look at that that's cool
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that's the window they were looking out
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right there
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and they're playing the film on the tv
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at the couch there behind you
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and they're playing harvey in the
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kitchen that they were watching in the
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hearing any voices no voices in your
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head
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if you stay here long enough after
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nightfall you might see
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someone out there walking out of the
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cornfield
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i do own this book met him at a
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convention once
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oh thank you okay this is included
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well thank you oh wonderful it's like
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included in the 20
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admission to the tour is a magnet
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there you go i got one too a little
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little memento
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yeah the souvenir see if it sticks
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didn't sick i'd have to stick it on the
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refrigerator
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as far as a replica that's a replica of
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what he was driving around kevin costner
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was driving around picked up james earl
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jones
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he did right in there and they went to
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see a baseball game
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there you go they went to fenway
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fenway park i think it was fenway i
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think it was the red they want to see
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the red sox game
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movie that they wanted to film about
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baseball and farming the list included a
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two-story white house
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a long lane a couple barns and some corn
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obviously don's house offered all of
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that
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um but sue rydel from the dubuque film
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office really wanted summer in iowa to
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be picked so the movie was going to be
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based off of iowa but
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when universal sent out that list it did
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not have to be a farm from iowa
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so they sent it out to film offices all
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over the country even some provinces of
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canada were in the mix
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they would get pictures sent in from
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everywhere they narrowed it all down
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and when phil alden robinson came here
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to
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see the house for the first time it said
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that he came over the hill saw the house
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and he screamed he said that's my house
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that's the one i want my movie
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um so they came here they filmed don
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lived here for about 24 years after they
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got done filming so
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he met his now wife becky she was on a
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bus tour visiting from the chicago area
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she was out there one day he went out
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and he would talk to the tourists every
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once in a while if he was home or if he
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wasn't busy
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um they met hit it off and he actually
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proposed on first base
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still happily married living in
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dyersville um but
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they got married a little bit later in
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life so there was no fourth generation
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to pass the farm to they didn't have any
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children of their own
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so they knew at some point they were
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going to have to sell
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when they were looking for someone to
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purchase the house and the land
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money was not their motivator their
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motivator was finding the right person
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to take over the field
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make sure it stayed how it is didn't
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turn back into corn
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make sure people could still come and
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visit like you guys are all doing today
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and just finding that right person so
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they met with denise stillman
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she was from the chicago area big into
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fundraising
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she's very good at her job everyone
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loved her she was a people person
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so when they met with her they knew
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that's who they wanted to sell to
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so in 2012 denise and her company go the
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distance baseball purchase the house and
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the land which includes 197 acres
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for 3.4 million dollars which is
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actually in the movie
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was because jimmy stewart was phil alden
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robinson's first choice to be doc graham
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phil was a huge jimmy stewart fan he
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really wanted him to play in the movie
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but jimmy was getting a little bit older
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his health wasn't the greatest
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that summer in iowa was going to be very
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very hot jimmy was the first choice so
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they wrote this scene in specifically to
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play a jimmy stewart movie
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so he could still be a part of the field
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of dreams include bud selig the former
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commissioner of baseball
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robert manfred the current commissioner
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reggie jackson tom barringer
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kevin costner and ray liotta have balls
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signed in these two front
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cases um wade boggs has a signed hat
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the ghost players all sign the pinstripe
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hat in there
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and then my personal favorite james earl
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jones has a ball signed in there
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definitely get the chills every time you
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look at that one for sure so
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like i said just different things that
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we've um collected from over the years
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we'll be on that field
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we're very excited about it so we have a
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group of about 40 investors right now
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wade boggs is one of them hall of famer
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um
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matthew perry from friends chandler vega
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is a big baseball fan
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he is also one of our investors so we're
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hoping that
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with the national attention that the mlb
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game brings we can
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get some more investors to help make the
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rest of the denise's dream come true
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this here is a picture of our ghost
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players
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universal called when they were on their
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way saying that they wanted a team ready
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anytime in the movie that they were
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playing a game they wanted it to look
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more fluid
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they wanted baseball players playing
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baseball not actors trying to be
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baseball players
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um so what they did is they got these
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guys from about six different semi-pro
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teams from around the area that makes
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the joe what's a crop him and annie
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thought it was pretty funny mark and the
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in-laws did not
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um that's when karen comes in to tell
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her dad that the baseball game is on
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um they head out the door that we came
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they sneak past this window where they
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go out and watch the
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baseball practice on the second scene in
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here
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ray are sitting at the table talking
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about their finances and open it all
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up the floors were linoleum sound
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quality on linoleum is not up to
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hollywood standards
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so they ripped that up finished the
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hardwood they built the bay window down
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here and upstairs
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the original front porch ended right
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before the corner so they finished
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wrapping that around so they could hang
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that corner porch and silk corn stalks
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on standby from overseas
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but he was going to get shipped in and
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that's what they were going to use um as
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iowans there was absolutely no way fake
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corn was going to
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be about iowa we might as well take it
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somewhere else
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with how fast the corn was growing they
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had a three-day window to film
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all of the scenes of the ghost players
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going in and out of the corn
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otherwise you would have been able to
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see a difference between the top of
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their head and the top of the corner
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when they were looking for an actor to
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play shoeless joe
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all the qualifications were is that they
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had to be left-handed
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so biologically ray leona is left-handed
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you think it's perfect until he failed
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to mention and everybody failed to ask
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him if he could swing a baseball bat
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the answer was no they practiced with
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him until his fingers bled he could not
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bat left-handed
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now just to give a little bit of a
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close-up she was saying that they put
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their groceries here this was seen very
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prominently
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as well as up top up here this cake dish
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can be seen it has not moved it's in the
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same spot
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inside the kitchen
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pretty cool pretty good tour definitely
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worth the 20 dollars
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feel like you got a pretty good handle
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on everything that was filmed in here
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now i'm impressed
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a lot of a lot of the back story just
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makes so much
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more sense and they showed clips on the
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tv she was scrolling through to show
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you know they filmed some scenes here at
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this table over at the in the living
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room
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in the dining room yeah in the kitchen
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and upstairs looks nothing like it did
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anymore in fact they rented out it's all
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booked up i checked but
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certain times of year they rent out the
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upstairs as like a airbnb
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i don't know if you recorded when she
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was talking about the picture of the
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ghost players here that came out of the
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cornfield right
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how these were actually local
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minor league team baseball players so
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they could actually have when they were
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shooting the
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wide shots of the scenes from the field
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and you couldn't see the faces of the
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these were actually baseball players
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playing so they looked normal and
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natural so it looked like
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you could tell they weren't actors
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playing just actors playing baseball
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my dad's not good with with these
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swinging porch swings he's had a couple
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runnings with him
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down so it doesn't it doesn't move too
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much
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no problem has anyone ever tumbled off
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in here
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into the bush i'm sure
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usually people are pretty uh pretty good
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thank you
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no problem thanks for coming i
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appreciate it yeah i feel like we never
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had time to even break these in
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the glove is you know how sometimes like
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over time it conforms around your hand
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there's no conforming these are just the
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leather has not even been
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worn in at all no pretty stiff they've
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only been we use them for about five
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minutes the other day and
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use it for a couple minutes here when we
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were kids
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just put a baseball in there and oil it
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down with some kind of lubricant
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and wrap the glove around it and yeah
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wrap it up just to make it fit
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yeah this would be the
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moonlight graham spot right here
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hitting it out there where the where the
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ghosts were
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there
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don't don't throw it on the ground
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either like they used to be
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let's see if i can't get better here
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there we go
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want to have a catch
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oh how long do you think it's been since
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we've done this
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too far 25 years yeah it's been a while
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we used to do this all the time
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uh metal bat you never use a metal bat
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yeah when i was
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playing the last i played baseball would
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have been
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four years of little league that's ages
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8 through 12
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and then i started in the next league up
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at age 13.
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always a wooden bat always a wooden bed
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but then my career ended abruptly
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um oh double come over this way
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because uh when i played little league
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my last year my
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my coach he needed to catch her and i
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didn't want to be a catcher but he
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coerced me coerced me
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into being a catcher so i did
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when i went to the next league up at age
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13
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they said oh you used to be a catcher
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and i hated being a catcher so they
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wanted me to be a catcher
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so anyway that ended my career you're
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like i don't want to be a catcher i
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don't want to be not doing this anymore
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and then when i started playing baseball
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you would get home from work
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and we would throw the ball around for
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an hour every night sometimes
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yeah and that yard and you follow it's
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like a hundred yards long
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and i used to do grounders and you would
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throw them out at second base and all
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that stuff for you you had a good arm
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we'd throw it so far
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you had a he had a good arm yourself
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here through the whole distance of that
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yard
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powerball coming in hey
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what did he say see if he could hit my
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curve something like that yeah
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that's when i said it wasn't when i you
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said no it's not when you're playing on
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that one
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it's all good
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i think we successfully did it we had to
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catch the field of dreams
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one more bring it hot bring it hot
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that's gonna do it for today a bucket
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list
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of sorts achieved
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someone just had an oh crap moment
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that's how i feel
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right here at the farmhouse and the
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field give me this
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at the field from the movie
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1989 field of dreams my dad
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and i on this road trip veered off
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we had to standing in the same spots
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had a catch the vlog
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is over after that i'm not purchasing a
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t-shirt because i did get this magnet
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that was included with the
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the chore of the house what a great day