‘Field of Dreams’: A Tribute to an American Sporting Tradition

This installment of ‘Movies for Young Adults’ celebrates the culture of baseball.
‘Field of Dreams’: A Tribute to an American Sporting Tradition
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta, L) and Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), in “Field of Dreams.” Caralco Pictures/MovieStillsDB
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Some may wonder about the point of a sport like baseball. Where’s the sense in one man pitching a ball at another who will hit it away, only for the ball to be brought back in by fielders, and for all players to simply repeat that routine?

But sport, as this remarkable film shows, is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on pop culture.