"Field of Dreams" Sold for $3.4 Million

For years, Don and Becky Lansing have invited plenty of tourists (an estimated 65,000 a year) onto their property to check out the baseball field that has been cut into their Dyersville, Iowa cornfield.

But, more two years ago, the couple decided to put their 193-acre property on the block for a cool $5.4 million.

Oh...did I mention that their field was the same one used in the 1989 Kevin Costner film "Field of Dreams"?

Well, last week, Go the Distance Baseball LLC, an investment group out of Chicago which happens to also include Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, closed the deal to buy the the popular movie site for $3.4 million.

"We already have begun creating our team of architects, engineers and construction experts from Iowa who will lead the charge for developing All-Star Ballpark Heaven," Denise Stillman said in a statement.

According to reports, "All-Star Ballpark Heaven" includes 24 youth baseball and softball fields and, if it all goes to plans, will bring close to $40 million to the sleepy Iowa town.

More Like "Field of Erroneous Scorekeeping"

It was bound to happen, right?

Not that long ago, Larry Granillo from Baseball Prospectus figured out what game Ferris Bueller was at in the aptly titled film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Then, just last week, the boys over at The Hardball Times cracked the case of what game Steve Rogers (aka "Captain America") was referencing in "Captain America: The First Avenger".

And now...there's this:

Field of Dreams opened in cinemas on April 21, 1989.

During the film, as you know, Kevin Costner’s character goes to Fenway Park with James Earl Jones’ character to watch the Red Sox play the Athletics.  

There is a brief shot of Kevin Costner (or a hand pretending to be Kevin Costner) keeping score. 

The camera shows the following, mostly-incomplete names on the scorecard: 

EED 

RRETT 

BOGGS 

ANS  

WELL 

I checked Baseball-Reference.com to see which game they went to.

Craig Robinson, he of the widely popular website Flip Flop Flyin', unraveled the mystery of the Boston Red Sox game that Ray Kinsella dragged Terence Mann to in the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams".

And as Robinson pointed out (go click the link above or click THIS ONE to see the entire post)...it was more like "Field of Erroneous Scorekeeping".

Then again...this isn't the first time Costner has gotten it wrong.