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Young Drachma 05-14-2010 02:26 PM
Field of Dreams field for sale
 
For Sale: The Field of Dreams

For the bargain price of $5.4 million dollars.

Story

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In "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's character builds a ballpark out of a corn field because a voice says: "If you build it, he will come."

Well, now he can buy it, and so can anyone else.

Don and Becky Lansing, the owners of the site near Dyersville, Iowa, where the field was built by Universal Studios, said they're selling the property. The asking price is $5.4 million.

The couple said they love the land, which has been in Don Lansing's family for more than a century, but they're ready to retire.

"It's really time for us to head to the locker room. Maybe that sounds corny. I don't care," Becky Lansing said. "We really would just love to become spectators. We want to sit in the bleachers."

The site has been a popular tourist destination. Up for sale is the diamond, a two-bedroom house, six outbuildings that include a concession stand, and a 193-acre parcel.

MikeVic 05-14-2010 02:28 PM
Can we buy it and make it the micronation of FOFC?

MalcPow 05-14-2010 02:30 PM
Can we change this to "Field of Dreams field fielding offers"?

Greyroofoo 05-14-2010 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeVic (Post 2283471)
Can we buy it and make it the micronation of FOFC?

I got $50 to chip in.

Ksyrup 05-14-2010 02:43 PM
Does it come with a parking lot for our aircraft carrier?

korme 05-14-2010 02:47 PM
A fake field from a movie is going for that price.

I'll just build my own and they'll come

Sun Tzu 05-14-2010 03:24 PM
I cry every time I watch that movie.

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molson 05-14-2010 03:41 PM
I still can't believe they plowed all that corn for a ball field. A ball field! No wonder Kevin Costner's weird brother-in-law was so pissed.

Maybe Joe Jackson should have stayed in heaven and those terrible farmers should have donated that food to the hungry.

MikeVic 05-14-2010 03:46 PM
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Located at the intersection of fantasy and reality

Horrible.

Subby 05-14-2010 03:50 PM
I would pay 5.4m for the technology to replace Amy Madigan and James Earl Jones with less irritating actors.

LastWhiteSoxFanStanding 05-14-2010 03:52 PM
Amy Madigan, yes. James Earl Jones...really?

Sun Tzu 05-14-2010 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Subby (Post 2283519)
I would pay 5.4m for the technology to replace Amy Madigan and James Earl Jones with less irritating actors.

Blasphemy!!!

Subby 05-14-2010 03:56 PM
That was one of my top 10 movies for a long time, but upon re-watching it recently it didn't hold up as well as I had hoped. Amy Madigan was over the top cringe-worthy and I thought James Earl was mis-cast.

Just one man's opinion.

Sun Tzu 05-14-2010 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Subby (Post 2283528)
That was one of my top 10 movies for a long time, but upon re-watching it recently it didn't hold up as well as I had hoped. Amy Madigan was over the top cringe-worthy and I thought James Earl was mis-cast.

Just one man's opinion.

I don't know that anybody in Hollywood could have delivered the "Baseball" speech in the end as well as Jones did. If he did nothing else in any other movie out there, that alone was enough to give him a permanent spot in my heart.

FBPro 05-14-2010 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu (Post 2283496)
I cry every time I watch that movie.

[/softandtendermoment]

No doubt, also played on the field....wife and I took a trip there back in the day.

Drake 05-14-2010 09:38 PM
This is a much better microinvestment opportunity than the FOFC aircraft carrier.

(I still wish we had the aircraft carrier, though.)

JeeberD 05-15-2010 05:50 AM
I sprained my ankle sliding into third there when I was 12 years old. I should have sued their asses, taken the field for myself, and sold it for 5 million myself.

Opportunity lost... :(

sterlingice 05-16-2010 10:05 PM
They'd better not sell it to someone who will pave it over before I have a chance to visit. We were planning on going back to Iowa for a week and visiting the stuff around the state where my wife grew up including that but it's on hold for now.

SI

BYU 14 05-17-2010 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu (Post 2283532)
I don't know that anybody in Hollywood could have delivered the "Baseball" speech in the end as well as Jones did. If he did nothing else in any other movie out there, that alone was enough to give him a permanent spot in my heart.

So true, goose bumpy stuff.


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