Blog 4

I watched "The Field of Dreams". The movie was about A man in Iowa that built a baseball field on his farm because he had a voice in his head that said "build it and they will come". His farm was failing so this was a very controversial decision to build on his land that couldve been used for crops. After he builds the field, he starts players that were involved with the infamous "Black Sox Scandal". These players had been banned for life for throwing a World Series for money. So their second chance was to play at his Iowa farm field. The farmer and his family were the only people that could see them play, and whenever the government and other IRA people came to seize the farm, they couldn't see the players. The man ends up seeing Shoeless Joe Jackson in life when he was really young, and eventually gets to play catch with his father. The movie depicted baseball as a sport that was in the blood of the USA. By putting the setting in Iowa on a farmers land, it enforces the notion that baseball runs through the veins of the hardworking people that provide for the USA. While the man traveled to find clues at several ballparks, it depicted the sport as wildly popular because every stadium they went to was full of baseball fanatics that all had their special story about the ball park and baseball in general. The movie was very accurate in its depiction because I believe that baseball really does influence and provide entertainment and hope for middle class families in America that work very hard. Also, its historically relevant because the Black sox scandal was a real ordeal and the movie did a great job of telling its story. I would give the movie a 4.5/5 stars because it not only had alot of baseball history but also tied it into recent and relevent baseball facts and ballparks and had a good moral message at the end.