The game of catch at the end of Field of Dreams. Based on the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, the film tells the tale of Ray Kinsella, an all-American good guy working an Iowan farm with his young family. One night he hears a voice whispering “If you build it, he will come” and so Ray builds a baseball diamond and awaits the arrival of the 1919 Black Sox.
But Field of Dreams isn’t a film about disgraced baseball players getting another opportunity to play ball, nor is it about a madman destroying his farming livelihood due to voices.
Above all, it’s a film about a son getting to play catch with his long-dead father one last time.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are among the extras included in the Fenway Park scene.
Actor Ray Liotta batted right-handed and threw left-handed, the opposite of the real Shoeless Joe Jackson.
The grass sod used for the baseball field died in the summer heat, forcing the crew to paint it green.
