What is the meaning of baseball? I believe that everyone who loves baseball has thought about this question, and the answers will naturally be different. The baseball movie "Field of Dreams" released in 1989 is a classic work that makes us seriously think about this issue.
Because the movie's discussion of baseball was touching enough, the major league league also decided to fulfill the dream in the movie. The first major league game in Iowa was held next to a cornfield where the movie was shot.
What is so special about this movie and this game? The director will tell you one by one.
Baseball is not just baseball
The protagonist of this movie, Ray, grew up in New York, and then spent his youthful and exciting years at the University of California, Berkeley, which is full of progressive ideas on the West Coast. But after graduation, he settled down and went to farm in Iowa, far away from the hustle and bustle, with his wife Anne.
Source: White Sox Social Media
Due to the early death of his mother, as an old man who was raised almost solely by his father, Lei has had an ideological generation gap with his father since adolescence. His biggest problem when he reached middle age was that he had never reconciled with his father..
When he was young, he thought his father had no dreams. He mocked his father's idol "Shoeless Joe" Joe Jackson and refused to play baseball with his father. He even left New York, where he grew up, to study on the West Coast to stay away from his father. University.
In the middle is Jackson (Source: Hall of Fame Social Media)
Ray’s father passed away the year Ray got married, and he was unable to see his daughter-in-law, nor his granddaughter, who was also entering middle age. Ray's regret.
Once while working in the cornfield, Ray heard a strange sound "When you build it, he will come."
Although he only guessed the meaning of this sentence, he decided to regain his youthful passion and risk At the risk of bankruptcy, he spent all his savings, plowed up part of the cornfield he relied on for survival, and converted it into a baseball field.
After the baseball field was built, he waited for the ghost of "Shoeless Joe" who had not been able to play baseball for a long time because he was banned for life from the major leagues. He also waited for the White Sox players who were banned for life because of the "Black Sox Incident". They were finally able to enjoy the fun on the baseball field that they had not experienced for too long in their lives.
html No. 15 is Graham (Source: Hall of Fame Social Media)
This is not the end of Ray's madness. He followed the voice he heard in his heart, from Boston to Minnesota, called and played only one game in the major leagues. The heroic spirit of former New York Giants player Archie Graham helped him fulfill his wish.
Technical statistics table of Graham's only major league game (Source: Hall of Fame Social Media)
At the end of the movie, he finally fully understood the voice he heard at the beginning: "You build it, he will will come" meaning.
He was waiting for his father, not the old man he remembered who was surrounded by the pain of real life, but a young, dreamy father who was once a minor league player .
Stills of Ray's father
He can finally untie his knot, introduce his wife and daughter to his father, and play baseball again with his father .
Dreamland Baseball Game
In the movie, a quarrel between Ray's daughter Kai Ling and his brother-in-law Mark became an opportunity for Major League Baseball to link up with the movie Dreamland.
White Sox players wearing retro jerseys (Source: Team social media)
Mark, considering his sister and Ray's financial situation, persuaded Ray to sell the baseball field to avoid living on the street. Kai Ling said in a coquettish voice that even if the baseball stadium is not sold, they will not go bankrupt, because people will use this baseball stadium as a tourist attraction, pay the tickets, and find the beautiful meaning of life and the past .
Major league officials also decided to move the regular season to Iowa for the first time, making this cornfield baseball game and Kai Ling’s dream a reality.
White Sox players wearing retro jerseys (Source: Team social media)
After experiencing the twists and turns of being postponed due to the epidemic last year, this game will be held next to the Dreamland Baseball Stadium on August 12, local time. A new stadium with a capacity of 8,000 spectators is being constructed.
The opponents were the White Sox and the Yankees, the two teams that had a bond with Ray's father.
Just like the classic line in the article, people will come here to find their past, to get their long-lost peace, to evoke the good times of the past and the longing for the future .
The meaning of baseball
Back to the topic at the beginning of the article, what is the meaning of baseball? The film "Field of Dreams" offers several open and compatible discussions.
Baseball is not something that can be summed up by a few words, nor can it be summed up by one person’s hard work. Baseball represents life, represents family, and represents inheritance between generations .
The script of "Field of Dreams" (Source: Hall of Fame Social Media)
"Field of Dreams" is not a romance film, but when you see Ray's wife having the same dream as her husband, and defying all opinions, she is determined She fully supports her husband's madness for baseball again and again. This kind of love is romantic..
"Field of Dreams" is not a family drama, but when you see that when Ray was young, his father regarded the deeds of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as Write a bedtime fairy tale to coax him to sleep. Such a life is a beautiful .
And especially when you hear the sentence "Heaven is a place where dreams come true" and see those deceased great players standing on the baseball field pitching and swinging bats, you will realize that even if Even life and death cannot stop people from loving baseball..
Transcending time and space, connecting different generations, and being full of infinite possibilities may be the true meaning of baseball..
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