This story was originally published before MLB staged its first Field of Dreams game on Aug. 12, 2021. We are republishing it in the leadup to the third edition of the game, set for Aug. 13 in Dyersville, Iowa. The game will be broadcast on Netflix, which on Saturday returned the iconic 1989 film, “Field of Dreams,” to its content library.
You may think you know “Field of Dreams.” You’ve watched the movie on repeat, you’ve slowed it down and studied it — frame-by-frame — and you can recite the script by heart. Well, congratulations. No matter what your parents may have told you, that’s quite a feat.
But whether you are the person above, or you’re simply someone who loves a story about baseball, family and ghosts haunting a cornfield, you may be surprised to learn one of these facts about the film.
Unfortunately, while the scorebook got the lineup right, the action on the field was seemingly made up.
