![]() In fact, the distance from the movie site’s homeplate to the MLB field’s homeplate is exactly 1,000 feet. Since MLB announced the Field of Dreams series in 2019, BrightView has worked with MLB to draw up plans and carve out and maintain an MLB caliber ballfield in a cornfield adjacent to the Dyersville farm where the movie was filmed and the original field still stands. And the sequel, featuring the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs, promises to be just as epic. 11, BrightView is again working with MLB to bring this vision to life and ensure the field conforms to major league playing standards. With the second installment of the Field of Dreams classic scheduled for Aug. We built it and they’re coming… again! As anticipation builds for the encore to last year’s MLB at Field of Dreams game, BrightView (NYSE: BV), the Official Field Consultant of Major League Baseball, is deep in the thick of a Dyersville, Iowa cornfield fine tuning and carefully manicuring the major league field inspired by the beloved 1989 film. "I just hope it doesn't take some of the beauty away from it," Molnar said of the movie site diamond.The Field of Dreams game is yet another special project in a long line of celebrated games that BrightView has assisted MLB. When she and her family came to Dyersville in July while visiting relatives in Iowa, it was too late for that. Final preparations on the MLB park were underway. ![]() Jessica Molnar, from Arizona, had hoped to visit before construction started on the new MLB field. Weinberg hopes the renewed attention could propel the organization's goal of putting in youth baseball fields near the original diamond. The league has featured the site heavily since, and FOX included shots of the new park during the All-Star Game earlier this summer. Some visitors had never heard of the movie site until the MLB announced the game, Weinberg said. More: What you need to know about MLB's Field of Dreams ballpark in Dyersville "It's put us on another platform and has helped us reach a whole other level of brand awareness for baseball fans and the national and international markets out there," Weinberg said. Then Dyersville was roiled by yet-unrealized plans to build a youth sports complex near the diamond, envisioned as hosting tournaments for traveling teams and bringing jobs to the region. Land from two farms was used for the diamond, and the families that owned the farms feuded in and out of court for years, even operating competing souvenir stands on opposite sides of the field. Just like in the movie, the diamond became a tourist attraction - but not without plenty of controversy along the way. The farm faces bankruptcy because of Kinsella's supposedly foolish decision to destroy his crop, but by the movie's end, a string of headlights of cars headed to the field signals that tourists will indeed come, and the farm will be saved. Soon, ghosts of baseball legends materialize from out of the corn. In the movie, Kinsella plows under his corn to build a baseball field for Joe Jackson and other members of the 1919 White Sox team, banished for gambling on baseball.
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