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9 unusual facts about Field of Dreams


Bob Scherbarth

Like Moonlight Graham from Field of Dreams fame, Scherbarth was one of many players since 1900 who appeared in a game but never had a plate appearance.

Brett Mandel

Minor Players, Major Dreams tells the inside story of a minor-league baseball career, and Is This Heaven? The Magic of the Field of Dreams chronicles Mandel's pilgrimage to the set of the movie, Field of Dreams.

Buddy Hancken

His friend, Bill McCurdy (The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball), responded him with a reference to the popular baseball movie Field of Dreams: "That's OK, Buddy, at least you got your hands on the ball. Moonlight Graham never did".

Chris Krug

At least one example of his work has been seen by millions of moviegoers and tourists since---it was Krug who designed the cornfield ballfield made famous in the Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams.

Eddy Furniss

During his 2012 induction speech, Furniss quoted the character based on Moonlight Graham from Field of Dreams.

Mark Grace

His ex-wife, Michelle, was also married to Ray Liotta, who played baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams.

Patricia Scott

The farm included a baseball field, just like in the 1992 film Field of Dreams, where she began playing baseball when she was eight years old.

Ricky Horton

Horton briefly appeared in the film Field of Dreams, shown pitching for the White Sox in a scene where Ray Kinsella's young daughter is watching baseball on television.

The Other Side With Steve Godfrey

The usual music aired on the show came from the soundtrack of the motion picture Field of Dreams, composed by James Horner.


Frank Porter Graham

The baseball career of Graham's brother, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, was popularized in the W. P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe and the 1989 film it inspired, Field of Dreams.

Gainesway Farm

The colt has been named Kinsella after well-known baseball writer W. P. Kinsella, whose book, Shoeless Joe, was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams".

Lake County Fielders

actor Kevin Costner, whose filmography includes baseball films Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), and For Love of the Game (1999), also has ownership interest in the team.


see also

Daron Ker

“Rice Field of Dreams” follows Cambodian-American Joeurt “Joe Cook” Puk as he coaches Cambodia's first national baseball team to compete in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand.

Randy Meier

He received an Emmy Award in 2002 for his work on Oil Field of Dreams, an investigative report on the environmental impact of oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Salem bin Laden

Salem bin Laden died on May 29, 1988 when he accidentally drifted into high voltage electrical power lines adjacent to the Kitty Hawk Field of Dreams Ultra-Lite Flying Field at the edge of Schertz, a northeastern San Antonio suburb.