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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, August 13, 2021Field of Dreams game was great, now MLB should expand on build-a-stadium concept in more locations
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Posted: August 13, 2021 at 02:26 PM | 31 comment(s)
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1. villageidiom Posted: August 13, 2021 at 03:07 PM (#6034278)I wish Tiger Stadium still stood so they could play a game there.
I mean, I guess I just think no one will care at all about what Fagan is imagining. They care about this BECAUSE of the famous movie. Last night: A+. This article? D+, because I'm nice.
Would an early place where Jackie Robinson played fit this (like Montreal, or his first game was, I believe, at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ)? Or is it more like a Hollywood thing - like playing in Durham, NCand doing the whole Bull Durham thing? Or The Natural? Maybe I don't actually get it...
I don't really see the purpose of building a pop-up baseball stadium in Pittsburgh. But there are other sites that would work, places where they don't usually have Major League Baseball. SoSHu (I think) suggested last night having a game where they play the midnight game in Alaska; that would be cool. A real game in Cooperstown during Hall of Fame weekend would be great. Maybe you could squeeze one into the Elysian Fields in Hoboken.
I would trust Artie Lange would provide an entrance as memorable as Costner.
1) Dominican Republic (Latin America Classic, maybe rotate through with Mexico City, Aruba, Venezuela if the situation ever clears up there)
2) Cooperstown (Hall of Fame Game)
3) Alaska (Midnight Classic)
4) Birmingham (in honor of the Birmingham Black Barons, call it the Negro Leagues Memorial Game)
5) and maybe one more game that each year would visit a minor league stadium (perhaps starting with the Fargo, ND in honor of Roger Maris) and call it, oh, I don't know, the Small Town Classic
With the Field of Dreams game you get 6 games you could sprinkle throughout the season
April - Latin America Classic
May - Negro Leagues Memorial Game
June - Midnight Classic (right around the longest day of the year)
July - Small Town Classic
August - Field of Dreams Game
September - Hall of Fame Game
Old Tiger Stadium Transformed into The Corner Ballpark
I think this is generally a decent idea but I'd rather see them use a program like this to give a major boost to their "RBI" program (or whatever their urban baseball outreach effort is called these days). So yeah, that would mean a pop-up stadium in places like Chicago, Pitt, etc. But if you're making a serious effort at increasing participation by less-priveleged kids, they need places to play. Pop up a stadium and then leave behind a couple of nice baseball and softball fields in/near disadvantaged areas.
The suggestion of the NeL museum seems an obvious one that might fit both purposes. I might also suggest taking the "hold the draft at the CWS" a step further to play a game there during CWS. (Might make extra sense if the reduction of the minors means MLB will have to rely more on college ball.) Maybe something for the Tri-Cities! :-)
Pioneer HOFer Larry Doby was from Paterson and played HS BB and FB in that stadium. it's currently a 70 percent minority city.
The other thing here too is that MLB kinda lucked out last night. What if the game would have been an 11-2 blowout? Or what if, say, the Cubs had been scheduled to play instead of the White Sox and shown up with a squad of AAA scrubs? In all likelihood, the game probably wouldn't have been getting as much attention today. But it was an amazing game on top of being in a special setting, kind of a perfect storm. It's cool! But largely because all the elements came together to make it something that people will remember.
Which isn't to say that MLB shouldn't do this again. But space them out. Keep them special.
The Royals and Tigers played in Omaha just before the CWS in 2019.
Lou Gehrig famously hit two home runs at a high-school all-star game at Wrigley in 1920.
You know, the lack of corporate naming in Japanese baseball really is refreshing...
The Ham Fighers couldn't agree more! :-)
#18: I didn't know that but was thinking of more recent vintage. I look much younger than my 100 years.
I would have agreed with you before Manfred rolled over and decided that baseball exists primarily to be gambled upon.
Which is pretty much what baseball was back in its infancy. And well into the 1950's and possibly beyond,** many bars and pool rooms in every city and town had a concealed back room fixed up with Western Union machines and a blackboard for posting odds on baseball games and horse races from all over the country. It was a fascinating culture, filled with colorful characters, and I'm somewhat surprised that so far nobody's thought to make a movie about it.
** In fact as late as 1971 I was in one such room in a pool hall in Jackson, Tennessee.
Heck yeah!! Ebbetts field too.
It isn't just nostalgia and history that makes it work. Baseball is unique in that the field itself stretches beyond its natural boundaries. You could put up a football field in the middle of a cornfield, but so what? It's still just the 120 yard by 53 yard rectangle of playing space. Basketball and hockey are similar, except with the added problem that they're naturally indoor games (hockey's outdoor ventures haven't been to mystical locations, but stadiums used for other sports).
One thing that made this game more visually interesting, and could be the same for future events, is that the cornfields are not just a backdrop, but the place where the ball ends up in the sport's most glamorous play. The corn would just be out of bounds in other sports - here it was the destination. That incorporates the surroundings in a way that just isn't available for any of the other team sports.
You see some of that in the flashback scenes in "Casino". (I would like to see a whole movie about it!)
MLB should play a game in the parking lot of this Lowe's Hardware where Sick's Stadium once stood.
Needs a pregame spot with Michael Pineda asking a blue-vested Lowe's employee, "Do you have any topical adhesives that won't show up on TV?"
The Sting? (Though there's no baseball connection.) Or was there irony in that post?
Yeah, I assumed he was referring to The Sting.
BTW, although The Sandlot takes place (apparently, based on Benny the Jet being a Dodgers fan) in LA, it was actually filmed in Salt Lake City.
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