Iowa's 'Field of Dreams' Site for Sale for $5.4M.

[elleng]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/13/sports/AP-BBO-Field-of-Dreams.html?_r=1

[madinmaryland]

1. I hear the Big 12 is going to buy it, because of the Big Ten trying to encroach on their

league!

:D

[Condem]

2. Here ya' go. 193 acres of primo Iowa landscape!!

[Auggie]

3. That third photo -- looks like a crowd in Oakland

[Condem]

4. Pretty typical Iowans, Auggie.

I'll tell you what, though. A very cool place. Takes me about 90 minutes to get there.

[El Supremo]

5. Maybe U of Iowa could buy the site,

They might start a baseball tradition there.

[Condem]

6. Nah, El. I've given up on baseball at Iowa.

Methinks the winters and cold springs just kill us. The thing is....4 hours west in Lincoln. They do just fine. Crazy how 300 miles is a completely different climate.

[elleng]

7. Thanks for pics, Con.

Thought of you when I saw the news.

[Condem]

8. Much appreciated for the thread, elleng.

Took my father there a couple months before he died. Yeah, I know. Just a little maudlin. I said to him.."hey, dad. Do you want to have a catch?" Made his fucking day.

[elleng]

9. Oh, Con.

:hug:

[Auggie]

12. I wanted to shoot a TV commercial there years ago

but the location fee was way beyond our budget. We scouted a zillion locations to find something similar and finally located a field in Lawrence, Kansas. I know -- wrong state. But it was a cool little field, directly between crops of soy bean and a strip club. Yeah, a strip club.

[joeybee12]

11. It's the number of people in Cleveland who still like LBJ

:evilgrin:

[47of74]

10. I hope whoever buys it keeps it all going

[brendan120678]

13. Maybe someone will buy it and...

tear it down to plant a corn field.