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My father's name was John Kinsella.

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It's an Irish name.

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He was born in North Dakota in 1896...

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and never saw a big city until he came back from France in 1918.

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He settled in Chicago, where he quickly learned...

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to live and die with the White Sox.

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Died a little when they lost the 1919 World Series.

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Died a lot the following summer, when eight members of the team...

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were accused of throwing that series.

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He played in the minors for a year or two, but nothing ever came of it.

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Moved to Brooklyn in '35,

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married Mom in '38...

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and was already an old man working at the naval yards...

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when I was born in 1952.

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My name's Ray Kinsella.

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Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could.

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Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth,

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Lou Gehrig...

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and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson.

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Dad was a Yankees fan then, so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn.

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But in '58, the Dodgers moved away,

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so we had to find other things to fight about.

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We did.

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And when it came time to go to college,

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I picked the farthest one from home I could find.

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This, of course, drove him right up the wall,

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which, I suppose, was the point.

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Officially my major was English, but really it was the '60s.

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I marched. I smoked some grass.

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I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie.

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The only thing we had in common...

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was that she came from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.

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After graduation, we moved to the Midwest...

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and stayed with her family as long as we could—

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almost a full afternoon.

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Annie and I got married in June of '74.

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Dad died that fall.

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A few years later, Karin was born.

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She smelled weird, but we loved her anyway.

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Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm.

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I'm 36 years old.

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I love my family, I love baseball,

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and I'm about to become a farmer.

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But until I heard the voice,

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I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

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If you build it, he will come.

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If you build it, he will come.

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Hey, Annie!

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Annie, what was that? What was what?

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That voice just now. What was it?

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We didn't hear anything.

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Right.

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If you build it, he will come.

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Okay, you must have heard that!

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Sorry.

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Hey, come on in to dinner.

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Let's go, pumpkin.

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Is there like a sound truck on the highway or something?

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Nope. Hey, Karin, dinner's ready!

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Kids with a radio? Nope.

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Hey, are you really hearing voices?

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Just one.

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What did it say?

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"If you build it, he will come."

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If you build what, who will come? He didn't say.

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Mmm. I hate it when that happens. Me too.

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If you build it, he will come.

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Build what?

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What is this? Ray?

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It's okay, honey. I—

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I'm just talking to the cornfield.

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Well, anyway, I was walking down along the street,

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and I-I heard this voice saying,

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"Good evening, Mr. Dowd."

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Well, I-I turned around,

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and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against the lamppost.

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Why'd you do that? It was funny.

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Trust me, Karin. It is not funny.

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The man is sick. Very sick.

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Karin, honey, if you're finished, go get your book bag. Let's go.

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Oh, hon, I'll take her today.

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I got some errands to do in town.

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Far out. Hey.

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Yeah.

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Hey! What if the voice calls while you're gone?

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Take a message.

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Bye! Bye.

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Bye.

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In all those years, did you ever—

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It's just I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field, they—

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They hear things. You know, voices? You hearing voices?

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No, no, no. It's just that I... heard that some farmers do.

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And I, of course, don't, so I was wondering...

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if I was doing something wrong or something.

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Did you— Did you ever hear voices out there?

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- Who's hearing voices? - Ray is. Out in the fields.

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No, I'm not. I'm—

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- ♪ I'm crazy for tryin' -

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Noises.

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That darn tractor, uh—

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I'm just gonna get some 3-in-One oil,

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and that ought to do it.

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It was nice— Nice talking to you.

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If you build it, he will come.

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All right, that's it! Huh? Who the—

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Who are you, huh? What do you want from me?

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Son of a— If you build it, he will come.

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If you build it.

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If you build it,

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he will come.

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Hey. You don't suppose...

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this is like an acid flashback or anything, do you?

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I never took acid.

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Well, maybe you will someday. It's like a flash-forward.

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Annie, there's more.

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Honey, why don't you eat a little bit?

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I— I think I know what "If you build it, he will come" means.

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Ooh. Why do I not think this is such a good thing?

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I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that...

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Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play ball again.

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You're kidding.

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Uh-uh.

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Wow. Yeah.

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You're kidding.

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Boy, I thought my family was crazy.

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But this— This is the craziest thing I've ever heard.

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Shh. I know. It's totally nuts. I mean, Shoeless Joe.

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He's dead. Died in '51. He's dead.

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He's the one they suspended, right? Right.

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He's still dead?

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As far as I know.

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Did you know Babe Ruth copied his swing?

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If I did, I'd forgotten it.

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He was supposed to be so graceful and agile.

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So, to actually see him play again,

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to let him play, to right an old wrong.

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Wait. Wait a minute, Bosco.

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Are you actually thinking of doing this?

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No.

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I mean, I can't think of one good reason why I should, but—

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I'm 36 years old. I have a wife, a child and a mortgage,

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and I'm scared to death I'm turning into my father.

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What's your father got to do with all of this?

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I never forgave him for getting old.

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By the time he was old as I am now,

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he was ancient.

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I mean, he must have had dreams,

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but he never did anything about them.

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For all I know, he may have even heard voices too, but he...

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sure didn't listen to them.

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The man never did one spontaneous thing...

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in all the years I knew him.

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Annie, I'm afraid of that happening to me.

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And something tells me that this may be my last chance to do something about it.

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I want to build that field.

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Do you think I'm crazy?

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Yes.

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But I also think,

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if you really feel you should do this,

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then you should do it.

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What the hell is he doing?

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He's plowing under his corn. Why?

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Ty Cobb called him the greatest left-fielder of all time.

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They said his glove was the place where triples go to die.

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Could he hit? Could he hit?

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Lifetime average.356, third highest in history.

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Why'd they call him Shoeless Joe?

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When he was still in the minors,

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he'd bought a new pair of spikes, and they hurt his feet.

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So, about the sixth inning, he took them off...

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and played the rest of the game in just his socks.

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The other players kidded him, called him "Shoeless Joe," and the name stuck.

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He's gonna lose his farm.

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Damn fool.

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Then in 1919, his team, the Chicago White Sox—

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they threw the World Series.

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What's "threw"?

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It means they lost it on purpose.

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Gamblers paid them to. Except Shoeless Joe.

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Now, he did take their money, but nobody could ever prove...

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he did a single thing to lose those games.

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I mean, if he's supposed to be throwing it,

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how do you explain the fact that he hit.375 for the series and didn't commit one error, huh?

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I can't. Twelve hits, including the series' only home run,

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and they said he's trying to lose? It's ridiculous.

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The commissioner of baseball suspended eight of the players,

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including the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, for life.

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What's "suspend"?

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It means they never let him play the game again.

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You know, my father said he saw him years later...

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playing under a made-up name...

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in some 10th-rate league in Carolina.

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Said he'd put on 50 pounds, and the spring was gone from his step,

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but he could still hit.

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Dad used to say nobody could hit like Shoeless Joe.

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I think that's the first time...

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I've ever seen you smile when you mentioned your father.

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Well—

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I have just created something totally illogical.

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That's what I like about it.

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Am I completely nuts?

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Hmm? Not completely.

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It's a good baseball field, Ray.

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It's kind of pretty, isn't it?

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Mm-hmm.

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Any sign?

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Something's gonna happen out there.

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I can feel it.

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And so, for the veteran southpaw, his summer of woes continues.

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That's four straight hits in the inning.

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Daddy, what's a southpaw?

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Um, it means a left-handed pitcher, honey.

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So how bad is it?

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Well,

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considering how much less acreage we have for corn,

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I say we'll probably...

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almost break even.

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We used up all our savings on that field, Ray.

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Daddy? Just a minute, Karin.

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So what are you saying? We can't keep the field?

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Makes it real hard to keep the farm.

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Daddy? In a minute, Karin!

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There's a man out there on your lawn.

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I'll put up some coffee. Why don't you go on outside?

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Sorry.

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I'll get some out there.

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Hi.

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Ray Kinsella.

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Joe Jackson.

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Bet it's good to be playing again, huh?

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Getting thrown out of baseball...

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was like having part of me amputated.

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I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs...

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that have been dust for over 50 years.

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That was me.

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I'd wake up at night...

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with the smell of the ballpark in my nose,

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with the cool of the grass on my feet.

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The thrill of the grass.

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Can you pitch?

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Yeah.

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Not bad.

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Don't we need a catcher?

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Not if you get it near the plate, we don't.

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Right.

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I am pitching to Shoeless Joe Jackson.

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Nice hit.

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See if you can hit my curve.

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Whoa!

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Yeah, yeah. You can hit the curveball.

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Put one right here, huh?

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All right.

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Right. You're a low-ball hitter.

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Man, I did love this game.

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I'd have played for food money.

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It was the game.

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The sounds. The smells.

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Did you ever hold a— a ball...

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or a glove to your face?

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00:24:46,021 --> 00:24:48,123
Yeah.

261
00:24:48,157 --> 00:24:52,828
I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town.

262
00:24:54,029 --> 00:24:56,966
The hotels.

263
00:24:56,999 --> 00:25:00,102
Brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms.

264
00:25:04,773 --> 00:25:07,009
It was the crowd...

265
00:25:08,744 --> 00:25:11,680
rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep.

266
00:25:15,250 --> 00:25:17,219
Shoot.

267
00:25:19,121 --> 00:25:21,090
I'd have played for nothing.

268
00:25:28,764 --> 00:25:30,699
It's my family.

269
00:25:33,736 --> 00:25:35,904
What's with the lights?

270
00:25:35,938 --> 00:25:39,008
Oh. All the stadiums have them now.

271
00:25:39,041 --> 00:25:41,043
Even Wrigley Field.

272
00:25:41,076 --> 00:25:43,178
Makes it harder to see the ball.

273
00:25:43,212 --> 00:25:46,148
Yeah. Well, the owners found that more people could attend night games.

274
00:25:46,181 --> 00:25:48,250
Owners.

275
00:26:02,364 --> 00:26:05,868
Mr. Jackson, this is my wife Annie and my daughter Karin.

276
00:26:05,901 --> 00:26:08,804
Ma'am. Hi.

277
00:26:08,837 --> 00:26:11,874
Are you a ghost?

278
00:26:13,909 --> 00:26:17,012
- She's kidding. - It's okay.

279
00:26:17,046 --> 00:26:18,914
What do you think?

280
00:26:19,982 --> 00:26:22,051
You look real to me.

281
00:26:22,084 --> 00:26:24,153
Well, then I guess I'm real.

282
00:26:24,186 --> 00:26:27,189
Would you like to come inside?

283
00:26:27,222 --> 00:26:30,025
Uh, thanks. I don't think I can.

284
00:26:38,867 --> 00:26:40,769
Can I come back again?

285
00:26:41,904 --> 00:26:43,939
Yeah.

286
00:26:43,972 --> 00:26:46,108
I built this for you.

287
00:26:49,578 --> 00:26:51,814
There are others, you know.

288
00:26:53,348 --> 00:26:56,919
There were eight of us. It would really mean a lot to them.

289
00:26:56,952 --> 00:27:00,155
Yeah. Anytime.

290
00:27:00,189 --> 00:27:02,091
They're all welcome here.

291
00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:14,770
Hey! Is this heaven?

292
00:27:15,604 --> 00:27:18,173
No.

293
00:27:19,174 --> 00:27:20,175
It's Iowa.

294
00:27:26,882 --> 00:27:28,884
Where's he going?

295
00:27:28,917 --> 00:27:30,819
I don't know.

296
00:27:43,165 --> 00:27:45,067
We're keeping this field.

297
00:27:46,268 --> 00:27:49,271
You bet your ass we are.

298
00:27:49,304 --> 00:27:52,007
You're gonna lose your farm, pal.

299
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,610
Come on. It's so big. I mean, how can you lose something so big?

300
00:27:54,643 --> 00:27:56,879
You misplaced the house once.

301
00:27:56,912 --> 00:27:59,047
Yeah, but it turned up two days later, didn't it?

302
00:27:59,081 --> 00:28:01,216
Ray, come on. Ray. Ray. Ray.

303
00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:04,186
This stupid baseball field's gonna bankrupt you. Everybody knows it.

304
00:28:04,219 --> 00:28:08,323
All I'm saying is, if you wait till you default on your loan, you're gonna lose everything.

305
00:28:08,357 --> 00:28:11,293
If you sell now, my partners will give you more than fair price. You can—

306
00:28:11,326 --> 00:28:15,230
- Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Mark, but no. - No.

307
00:28:15,264 --> 00:28:18,066
Let me ask you this. What are you holding on to this place for?

308
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:20,035
I mean, it's— You never liked Iowa. That's not true.

309
00:28:20,068 --> 00:28:22,204
Yes. Come on. That's not true.

310
00:28:22,237 --> 00:28:25,073
You've never liked farming. It is true. You don't know the first thing about it.

311
00:28:25,107 --> 00:28:28,110
I know a lot about farming. I know a lot more than you think I know.

312
00:28:28,143 --> 00:28:31,380
Well, then how could you plow under your major crop?

313
00:28:32,147 --> 00:28:33,415
What's a crop?

314
00:28:35,117 --> 00:28:37,286
Come on. That is funny.

315
00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:40,022
"What's a crop?"

316
00:28:40,055 --> 00:28:42,057
Daddy, the baseball game is on.

317
00:28:42,090 --> 00:28:44,026
Excuse us.

318
00:28:45,694 --> 00:28:47,262
Excuse us.

319
00:28:52,201 --> 00:28:54,269
Annie, I don't believe this guy.

320
00:28:54,303 --> 00:28:57,272
I mean, I'm trying to bail him out, and he goes off to watch television?

321
00:28:57,306 --> 00:29:00,142
He used to be so normal. Yeah.

322
00:29:21,964 --> 00:29:24,333
Come on! [ All Shouting, Laughing ]

323
00:29:32,374 --> 00:29:34,309
Ho!

324
00:29:36,578 --> 00:29:39,214
Whoa!

325
00:29:39,248 --> 00:29:41,283
All right.

326
00:29:45,587 --> 00:29:48,423
Hey! Hey! Hey!

327
00:29:48,457 --> 00:29:50,492
All right, Happy!

328
00:29:52,194 --> 00:29:53,996
Watch Joe. Watch his feet.

329
00:29:54,029 --> 00:29:57,199
See, when a pitcher gets a sign and starts a pitch,

330
00:29:57,232 --> 00:29:59,268
a good left fielder knows what pitch is coming.

331
00:29:59,301 --> 00:30:02,304
He can tell from the angle of bat which way the ball's gonna be hit.

332
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,276
Show-off!

333
00:30:07,309 --> 00:30:10,379
Stick it in your ear, Gandil. Yeah, Gandil.

334
00:30:10,412 --> 00:30:14,349
If you'd have run like that against Detroit, I'd have won 20 games that year!

335
00:30:14,383 --> 00:30:17,452
For Pete sakes, Cicotte, that was 68 years ago.

336
00:30:17,486 --> 00:30:19,488
Give it up, will ya? Hey.

337
00:30:19,521 --> 00:30:23,125
Hey! You guys want to play ball or what?

338
00:30:23,158 --> 00:30:25,093
Muscle-bound jerk.

339
00:30:25,127 --> 00:30:27,195
Oh, yeah? At least I got muscles.

340
00:30:27,229 --> 00:30:29,231
No. At most you got muscles.

341
00:30:29,264 --> 00:30:31,166
Come on, asshole! Pitch!

342
00:30:31,199 --> 00:30:33,135
Weaver.

343
00:30:33,168 --> 00:30:35,103
Nice.

344
00:30:38,140 --> 00:30:41,510
- Sorry, kid! - It's okay. I don't mind.

345
00:30:41,543 --> 00:30:45,347
All right, Karin. Hey, hey, hey!

346
00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:47,516
Come on now.

347
00:30:57,292 --> 00:31:01,063
Ray? Honey, um, Mom and everybody's leaving now.

348
00:31:01,096 --> 00:31:03,198
Okay.

349
00:31:03,231 --> 00:31:07,035
Well, it was, uh— You know. Thanks for coming.

350
00:31:09,638 --> 00:31:12,274
Ray, think about what I said. You know, I'm just trying to help.

351
00:31:12,307 --> 00:31:13,642
I know.

352
00:31:13,675 --> 00:31:16,244
So I thought you two were gonna watch some game.

353
00:31:16,278 --> 00:31:19,548
Guess it's not really a game. It's more like a practice.

354
00:31:24,853 --> 00:31:27,522
See, there's only eight of them, so they can't play a real game.

355
00:31:27,556 --> 00:31:30,192
Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Hit now. Hit, babe.

356
00:31:30,225 --> 00:31:32,127
Eight of what?

357
00:31:33,528 --> 00:31:34,629
Them.

358
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,402
- Who them? - Them them.

359
00:31:40,435 --> 00:31:42,537
What, you don't see 'em?

360
00:31:42,571 --> 00:31:45,240
Karin, honey, uh, what are you watching?

361
00:31:45,273 --> 00:31:49,177
The baseball men. Baseball men?

362
00:31:52,147 --> 00:31:54,116
Do you see the baseball men right now?

363
00:31:54,149 --> 00:31:55,484
Of course I do.

364
00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,522
What— You really don't see 'em?

365
00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:03,392
I don't think it's very polite...

366
00:32:03,425 --> 00:32:05,627
to try to make other people feel stupid.

367
00:32:05,660 --> 00:32:07,629
Mom, w-wait a minute.

368
00:32:07,662 --> 00:32:10,098
Mom! Wait a minute.

369
00:32:10,132 --> 00:32:12,701
Dee. Dee, wait. You don't see these people?

370
00:32:12,734 --> 00:32:14,636
It's not funny, Annie.

371
00:32:28,450 --> 00:32:30,352
They couldn't see it.

372
00:32:31,586 --> 00:32:33,455
This is really interesting.

373
00:32:38,226 --> 00:32:41,596
Hey, Ray. Look at this. Sixty-eight years since I wore this uniform,

374
00:32:41,630 --> 00:32:44,332
still fits me like a glove.

375
00:32:44,366 --> 00:32:47,469
You must keep in pretty good shape. Oh.

376
00:32:47,502 --> 00:32:49,604
Now let's see, I died in '70.

377
00:32:49,638 --> 00:32:52,641
That means I haven't had a cigarette in, what, 18 years.

378
00:32:54,176 --> 00:32:56,178
You don't smoke, do you? No.

379
00:32:56,211 --> 00:32:59,414
Karin! Ray! Dinner!

380
00:33:00,782 --> 00:33:03,251
Ray, dinner. Dinner, Ray.

381
00:33:03,285 --> 00:33:05,353
All right, all right.

382
00:33:05,387 --> 00:33:07,622
Come on. Let's hit the showers.

383
00:33:07,656 --> 00:33:09,591
See you later.

384
00:33:14,196 --> 00:33:16,131
See you, guys.

385
00:33:22,604 --> 00:33:26,374
I'm melting! I'm melting!

386
00:33:26,408 --> 00:33:28,610
Come on, you knucklehead.

387
00:33:29,611 --> 00:33:31,480
That is so cool.

388
00:33:36,618 --> 00:33:38,653
Ease his pain.

389
00:33:38,687 --> 00:33:41,623
What?

390
00:33:41,656 --> 00:33:45,360
I'm sorry. What? I— I didn't understand. What?

391
00:33:45,393 --> 00:33:47,562
Ease his pain.

392
00:33:48,697 --> 00:33:51,399
"Ease his pain"? What—

393
00:33:51,433 --> 00:33:53,401
What the hell does that mean, "ease his pain"?

394
00:33:54,536 --> 00:33:57,739
What pain? All right? Whose pain?

395
00:34:04,412 --> 00:34:05,647
Thanks a lot.

396
00:34:06,815 --> 00:34:08,750
Thanks a lot.

397
00:34:16,691 --> 00:34:20,295
Come on, honey. Wash up. We got the P.T.A. meeting after dinner.

398
00:34:20,328 --> 00:34:22,764
They're talking about banning books again— really subversive books,

399
00:34:22,797 --> 00:34:26,434
like The Wizard of Oz, Diary of Anne Frank.

400
00:34:26,468 --> 00:34:29,437
What happened to you? The voice is back.

401
00:34:29,471 --> 00:34:31,606
Oh, Lord.

402
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,443
You don't have to build a football field, now, do ya? He said, "Ease his pain."

403
00:34:35,477 --> 00:34:37,779
Ease whose pain?

404
00:34:37,812 --> 00:34:40,549
I asked him. He wouldn't tell me. Shoeless Joe's?

405
00:34:40,582 --> 00:34:43,451
I don't think so.

406
00:34:43,485 --> 00:34:45,787
One of the other players? I don't think so.

407
00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:48,690
Ray, this is a very nonspecific voice you have out there,

408
00:34:48,723 --> 00:34:50,559
and he's starting to piss me off.

409
00:34:52,527 --> 00:34:55,497
"Ease his pain." I was having a fun day today— you know, a good day.

410
00:34:56,598 --> 00:34:58,533
Want a fry?

411
00:35:03,371 --> 00:35:06,775
And I say smut and filth like this...

412
00:35:06,808 --> 00:35:09,377
has no place in our schools.

413
00:35:13,448 --> 00:35:16,284
Fascist. I'd like to ease her pain.

414
00:35:16,318 --> 00:35:18,687
Mrs. Kessinik. Mrs. Kessinik.

415
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,690
That book you're waving about is hardly smut.

416
00:35:21,723 --> 00:35:23,858
It is considered by many critics to be...

417
00:35:23,892 --> 00:35:26,795
the classic novel about the 1960s.

418
00:35:26,828 --> 00:35:31,066
- It's pornography! - No, no, no. The Supreme Court says it's not.

419
00:35:31,099 --> 00:35:34,703
- And its author, Mr. Mann— - Is sick!

420
00:35:34,736 --> 00:35:37,072
Terence Mann is a Pulitzer prize winner.

421
00:35:37,105 --> 00:35:40,308
And he is widely regarded as the finest satirist of his time.

422
00:35:40,342 --> 00:35:42,344
Yeah? Well, I think he's a pervert!

423
00:35:42,377 --> 00:35:44,379
He's probably a communist too!

424
00:35:44,412 --> 00:35:46,915
What planet are these people from?

425
00:35:46,948 --> 00:35:51,086
Mr. Harris, the so-called novels of Terence Mann...

426
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:54,389
endorse promiscuity, godlessness,

427
00:35:54,422 --> 00:35:56,725
the mongrelization of the races...

428
00:35:56,758 --> 00:36:01,796
and disrespect to high-ranking officers of the United States Army.

429
00:36:01,830 --> 00:36:06,434
And that is why right-thinking school boards all across the country...

430
00:36:06,468 --> 00:36:09,571
have been banning this man's S-H-I-T...

431
00:36:09,604 --> 00:36:11,606
since 1969!

432
00:36:13,775 --> 00:36:15,844
Terence Mann?

433
00:36:19,681 --> 00:36:22,517
Y-Y-You know why he stopped writing books.

434
00:36:22,550 --> 00:36:24,486
Because he masturbates.

435
00:36:26,488 --> 00:36:28,323
Excuse me, madam.

436
00:36:29,591 --> 00:36:30,892
Excuse me.

437
00:36:33,495 --> 00:36:36,665
Terence Mann was a warm and gentle voice of reason...

438
00:36:36,698 --> 00:36:38,600
during a time of great madness.

439
00:36:40,702 --> 00:36:44,739
He coined the phrase "Make love, not war."

440
00:36:44,773 --> 00:36:46,875
While other people were chanting "Burn, baby, burn,"

441
00:36:46,908 --> 00:36:50,879
he was talking about love and peace and understanding.

442
00:36:50,912 --> 00:36:55,650
I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more.

443
00:36:55,684 --> 00:36:57,986
And I think if you had experienced...

444
00:36:58,019 --> 00:37:00,989
even a little bit of the '60s,

445
00:37:01,022 --> 00:37:03,491
you might feel the same way too.

446
00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:08,797
I experienced the '60s.

447
00:37:08,830 --> 00:37:11,166
No, I think you had two '50s...

448
00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:13,468
and moved right on into the '70s.

449
00:37:13,501 --> 00:37:15,837
Annie, look at this.

450
00:37:15,870 --> 00:37:19,741
Oh, yeah? Well, your husband plowed under his corn and built a baseball field.

451
00:37:19,774 --> 00:37:21,776
That's all right.

452
00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:24,679
Now, there's an intelligent response. Annie.

453
00:37:24,713 --> 00:37:27,749
The weirdo.

454
00:37:27,782 --> 00:37:30,985
Annie. Honey, it's all right. I'll be cool.

455
00:37:32,654 --> 00:37:35,824
At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow.

456
00:37:39,027 --> 00:37:42,897
At least I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties.

457
00:37:42,931 --> 00:37:45,767
All right, Beulah, do you want to step outside?

458
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,902
Fine!

459
00:37:47,936 --> 00:37:50,205
Annie. Annie.

460
00:37:50,238 --> 00:37:53,441
All right. All right, honey. I've got a better idea.

461
00:37:53,475 --> 00:37:56,811
Let's put it to a vote. All right? Who's for Eva Braun here?

462
00:37:56,845 --> 00:37:59,547
Who wants to burn books?

463
00:37:59,581 --> 00:38:03,985
Who wants to spit on the Constitution of the United States of America? Anybody?

464
00:38:10,825 --> 00:38:14,562
All right. Now, who's for the Bill of Rights?

465
00:38:14,596 --> 00:38:18,533
Who thinks freedom is a pretty darn good thing?

466
00:38:18,566 --> 00:38:22,036
Come on! Come on! Let's see those hands!

467
00:38:24,739 --> 00:38:27,075
Who thinks that we have to stand up...

468
00:38:27,108 --> 00:38:30,879
to the kind of censorship that they had under Stalin?

469
00:38:44,726 --> 00:38:47,595
All right. There you go, America. I love you.

470
00:38:47,629 --> 00:38:49,030
I'm proud of you. I mean it. Annie. Annie.

471
00:38:49,063 --> 00:38:50,698
What? We gotta go.

472
00:38:50,732 --> 00:38:53,635
We gotta go. This is great!

473
00:38:53,668 --> 00:38:56,671
I figured it out. I figured it out.

474
00:38:56,704 --> 00:38:59,707
Whoo! Was that great, or what?

475
00:38:59,741 --> 00:39:02,110
I figured it out. God, it was just like the '60s again!

476
00:39:02,143 --> 00:39:04,679
I just figured it out. Step outside, you Nazi cow.

477
00:39:04,712 --> 00:39:07,582
I know— I know— I know whose pain I'm supposed to ease.

478
00:39:07,615 --> 00:39:09,818
What? I know whose pain it is I'm supposed to ease.

479
00:39:09,851 --> 00:39:12,954
Wait. I just halted the spread of neofascism in America—

480
00:39:12,987 --> 00:39:15,023
Terence Mann. What about him?

481
00:39:15,056 --> 00:39:17,792
That's whose pain. How do you know that?

482
00:39:17,826 --> 00:39:20,895
I-I don't know. I just know. I was right about building the field, wasn't I?

483
00:39:20,929 --> 00:39:22,931
Yeah. Well, what's his pain? I don't know.

484
00:39:22,964 --> 00:39:24,833
Well, how you supposed to ease it? I don't know.

485
00:39:24,866 --> 00:39:26,868
Ray. Well, Ann—

486
00:39:26,901 --> 00:39:29,971
Look, he's my favorite writer too,

487
00:39:30,004 --> 00:39:32,974
but what's Terence Mann got to do with baseball?

488
00:40:00,068 --> 00:40:03,104
Annie, it's incredible. By the early '70s,

489
00:40:03,137 --> 00:40:05,673
the guy decides people have become either too extremist...

490
00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:07,675
or too apathetic to listen to him.

491
00:40:07,709 --> 00:40:10,345
So he st— So he stops writing books,

492
00:40:10,378 --> 00:40:13,581
he starts writing poetry about whales and stuff,

493
00:40:13,615 --> 00:40:16,351
and then he starts fooling around with a home computer.

494
00:40:16,384 --> 00:40:18,920
He gets hooked. You know what he does now? No.

495
00:40:18,953 --> 00:40:21,122
He writes software for interactive children's videos.

496
00:40:21,155 --> 00:40:25,860
I mean, they teach kids how to resolve their conflicts peacefully.

497
00:40:25,894 --> 00:40:29,063
God. What an amazing guy. Yeah. Well, what's he got to do with baseball?

498
00:40:29,097 --> 00:40:32,000
In the April 1962 issue of JET magazine,

499
00:40:32,033 --> 00:40:35,803
there's a story that's called "This Is Not a Kite."

500
00:40:35,837 --> 00:40:38,072
It's not his best work, but the hero of the story—

501
00:40:38,106 --> 00:40:40,041
the character that Mann created 26 years ago—

502
00:40:40,074 --> 00:40:42,744
is named John Kinsella— my father.

503
00:40:42,777 --> 00:40:45,213
Wow. What do you mean, "Wow"?

504
00:40:45,246 --> 00:40:49,083
What do you want me to say? Big wow! What's it gotta do with baseball?

505
00:40:49,117 --> 00:40:51,085
You drive.

506
00:40:56,758 --> 00:41:00,161
Okay, the last interview he ever gave was in 1973. Guess what it's about.

507
00:41:00,194 --> 00:41:02,230
Mmm. Some kind of team sport.

508
00:41:02,263 --> 00:41:04,632
Annie, the guy was a baseball fanatic.

509
00:41:04,666 --> 00:41:08,002
Listen to this. "As a child, my earliest recurring dream...

510
00:41:08,036 --> 00:41:12,006
was to play at Ebbets Field with Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

511
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,742
Of course, it never happened, and the Dodgers left Brooklyn,

512
00:41:14,776 --> 00:41:18,813
and they tore down Ebbets Field, but even now, I still dream that dream."

513
00:41:18,846 --> 00:41:20,748
That's sad.

514
00:41:23,184 --> 00:41:26,988
The man wrote the best books of his generation.

515
00:41:27,021 --> 00:41:30,191
Annie, he was a pioneer in the civil rights and the antiwar movements.

516
00:41:30,224 --> 00:41:32,894
I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek.

517
00:41:32,927 --> 00:41:34,963
He knew everybody. He did everything. All right.

518
00:41:34,996 --> 00:41:38,967
He helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with the Beatles.

519
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,203
But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.

520
00:41:42,236 --> 00:41:44,005
Oh, my God. What?

521
00:41:44,038 --> 00:41:46,841
As a small boy, he had a bat named Rosebud.

522
00:41:46,874 --> 00:41:49,444
Give me that. Sorry.

523
00:41:49,477 --> 00:41:53,014
Annie, the guy hasn't been to a live baseball game since 1958.

524
00:41:53,047 --> 00:41:55,249
Yeah. So, in order to ease his pain,

525
00:41:55,283 --> 00:41:58,720
you're supposed to take him to a ball game. Yes.

526
00:42:00,154 --> 00:42:02,824
Ray, this is nuttier than building the baseball field.

527
00:42:02,857 --> 00:42:04,959
No. No, it's not. It's pretty weird, I'll grant you.

528
00:42:04,993 --> 00:42:07,128
But building the field, that was weirder.

529
00:42:07,161 --> 00:42:11,032
Five, ten percent weirder. I'm sorry, pal. I'm gonna have to nip this one in the bud.

530
00:42:11,065 --> 00:42:14,268
We are having moderate to heavy financial difficulties here.

531
00:42:14,302 --> 00:42:17,805
And you can't take off for Boston while we're going broke in Iowa.

532
00:42:17,839 --> 00:42:20,174
Annie, this is really new territory for both of us, I know,

533
00:42:20,208 --> 00:42:22,877
but we're dealing with primal forces of nature here, all right?

534
00:42:22,910 --> 00:42:25,079
When primal forces of nature tell you to do something,

535
00:42:25,113 --> 00:42:28,816
the prudent thing is not to quibble over details. Yeah, but why do you have to go?

536
00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:31,185
Why can't the voice send somebody else?

537
00:42:31,219 --> 00:42:32,920
How about Shirley MacLaine?

538
00:42:32,954 --> 00:42:36,791
What, is she too busy? What does this have to do with you?

539
00:42:36,824 --> 00:42:38,960
That's what I have to find out.

540
00:42:38,993 --> 00:42:41,229
Ray, we are behind on the mortgage.

541
00:42:41,262 --> 00:42:44,999
That field ate up all of our savings. We could lose this farm.

542
00:42:45,033 --> 00:42:48,169
I won't even stay in motels. I'll sleep in the car. I'll beg for food.

543
00:42:48,202 --> 00:42:50,738
No. No! Now, this is too much.

544
00:42:53,007 --> 00:42:57,211
Now look. I understand your need to prove to yourself and to the world...

545
00:42:57,245 --> 00:42:59,347
you are not turning into your father, but you've done it.

546
00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:01,783
Look. You believed in the magic.

547
00:43:01,816 --> 00:43:04,252
It happened. Isn't that enough? Annie, it's more than that.

548
00:43:04,285 --> 00:43:07,188
Okay. I know this is totally nuts, but it—

549
00:43:07,221 --> 00:43:09,257
There's another reason I'm supposed to do it.

550
00:43:09,290 --> 00:43:12,794
I feel it. I feel it as strongly as I've ever felt anything in my life.

551
00:43:12,827 --> 00:43:15,963
There's a reason. What? Just tell me what it is.

552
00:43:15,997 --> 00:43:18,099
I think something's gonna happen at the game.

553
00:43:18,132 --> 00:43:20,301
I don't know what, but there's something at Fenway Park,

554
00:43:20,334 --> 00:43:23,104
and I gotta be there with Terence Mann to find it out.

555
00:43:24,906 --> 00:43:26,941
Is Fenway the one...

556
00:43:26,974 --> 00:43:28,976
with the big green wall in left field?

557
00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:30,978
Yeah.

558
00:43:32,847 --> 00:43:35,316
I dreamt last night you were at Fenway with Terence Mann.

559
00:43:37,051 --> 00:43:39,153
Was I sitting on the first base side? Yes.

560
00:43:39,187 --> 00:43:41,289
About halfway up on the aisle?

561
00:43:41,322 --> 00:43:44,559
Yeah. You were keeping score and eating a hot dog. I was eating a hot dog.

562
00:43:44,592 --> 00:43:47,795
I had the same dream. I'll help you pack.

563
00:44:12,453 --> 00:44:16,157
Hi, I'm—

564
00:44:16,190 --> 00:44:19,026
Hi, I'm Ray Kinsella. Hi. No.

565
00:44:19,060 --> 00:44:20,962
Hi.

566
00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:24,298
Hi, I'm Ray Kinsella. It's a great pleasure to finally get to—

567
00:44:24,332 --> 00:44:27,235
Hi, I'm Ray Kinsella. I'm a really big fan of y— No.

568
00:44:27,268 --> 00:44:29,303
Hi.

569
00:44:29,337 --> 00:44:31,606
Hi.

570
00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:33,841
How do you do, Mr. Mann?

571
00:44:33,875 --> 00:44:37,211
I have to take you to a base—

572
00:44:37,245 --> 00:44:41,282
All right, stupid. Put your hands up and get in the trunk.

573
00:44:41,315 --> 00:44:43,985
Good. Good.

574
00:44:45,353 --> 00:44:47,221
Look. He lives right around here. Do you know him?

575
00:44:49,023 --> 00:44:52,627
He's sort of a tall black man. I'm— I'm a friend of his.

576
00:44:52,660 --> 00:44:54,462
If he was much of a friend,

577
00:44:54,495 --> 00:44:57,331
he could give you the directions himself.

578
00:44:59,967 --> 00:45:02,837
That's a good point. Thank you.

579
00:45:04,505 --> 00:45:07,942
I don't know where he lives. Now get away from me!

580
00:45:07,975 --> 00:45:10,344
I ain't gonna tell you nothing!

581
00:45:10,378 --> 00:45:12,914
Go away! You're a pest!

582
00:45:16,984 --> 00:45:19,353
Two blocks down, right-hand side.

583
00:45:19,387 --> 00:45:22,890
First door that don't have a chicken in the window is his.

584
00:45:22,924 --> 00:45:24,859
No chicken.

585
00:45:29,397 --> 00:45:31,032
Chicken.

586
00:45:38,072 --> 00:45:40,408
You know, and people don't like to think about the issues.

587
00:46:09,170 --> 00:46:10,371
Who the hell are you?

588
00:46:14,208 --> 00:46:16,110
Sir, my name's Ray Kinsella.

589
00:46:36,330 --> 00:46:38,466
We got a learning disability here?

590
00:46:38,499 --> 00:46:40,501
Mr. Mann, if I could just have one minute, please. Look.

591
00:46:40,534 --> 00:46:43,404
I can't tell you the secret of life,

592
00:46:43,437 --> 00:46:45,439
and I don't have any answers for you.

593
00:46:45,473 --> 00:46:49,277
I don't give interviews, and I'm no longer a public figure.

594
00:46:49,310 --> 00:46:52,446
I just want to be left alone, so piss off.

595
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,583
Wait! Wait!

596
00:46:55,616 --> 00:46:58,185
Look. I've come 1,500 miles to see you...

597
00:46:58,219 --> 00:47:00,955
at the risk of losing my home and alienating my wife.

598
00:47:02,123 --> 00:47:03,991
Now, alls I'm asking is one minute.

599
00:47:05,092 --> 00:47:07,028
Please.

600
00:47:09,497 --> 00:47:11,365
One minute.

601
00:47:21,175 --> 00:47:25,179
Okay, I understand your desire for privacy, and...

602
00:47:25,212 --> 00:47:28,015
I wouldn't dream of intruding if this weren't extremely important.

603
00:47:28,049 --> 00:47:30,184
Oh, God.

604
00:47:30,217 --> 00:47:32,186
I don't do causes anymore.

605
00:47:32,219 --> 00:47:34,422
This isn't a cause.

606
00:47:34,455 --> 00:47:36,590
I don't need money or an endorsement.

607
00:47:36,624 --> 00:47:40,027
Refreshing. You once wrote,

608
00:47:40,061 --> 00:47:43,497
"There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place...

609
00:47:43,531 --> 00:47:47,101
and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds...

610
00:47:47,134 --> 00:47:48,569
to show you what's possible."

611
00:47:48,602 --> 00:47:50,404
Oh, my God.

612
00:47:51,639 --> 00:47:53,507
- What? - You're from the '60s.

613
00:47:53,541 --> 00:47:55,443
Well, yeah. Actually—

614
00:47:57,178 --> 00:47:58,412
Out! Hey!

615
00:47:58,446 --> 00:47:59,880
Back to the '60s! Back! Wait a second!

616
00:47:59,914 --> 00:48:03,351
There's no place for you here in the future. Get back while you still can!

617
00:48:06,687 --> 00:48:09,523
You've changed, you know that?

618
00:48:09,557 --> 00:48:14,261
Yes, I suppose I have. How about this? Peace, love, dope.

619
00:48:14,295 --> 00:48:16,397
Now get the hell out of here!

620
00:48:59,673 --> 00:49:02,610
Now, you've really pissed me off.

621
00:49:02,643 --> 00:49:05,146
Okay. Just hold it, right there.

622
00:49:05,179 --> 00:49:08,416
- I was hoping I wasn't gonna have to do it this way. - What the hell is that?

623
00:49:08,449 --> 00:49:10,518
It's a gun. What do you think it is?

624
00:49:10,551 --> 00:49:13,421
- It's your finger. - No, it's not. It's a gun.

625
00:49:13,454 --> 00:49:17,191
- Yeah? Let me see it. - Get out of here. I'm not gonna show you my gun.

626
00:49:17,224 --> 00:49:19,226
Now look. I'm not gonna hurt you.

627
00:49:19,260 --> 00:49:21,395
I just need you to come with me for a little while and—

628
00:49:21,429 --> 00:49:23,464
What are you— What are you doing?

629
00:49:23,497 --> 00:49:26,600
I'm gonna beat you with a crowbar until you go away.

630
00:49:26,634 --> 00:49:28,903
Whoa! Wait! You can't— You can't do that.

631
00:49:28,936 --> 00:49:31,305
There are rules here? Oh, no. There are no rules here.

632
00:49:33,441 --> 00:49:35,242
You're a pacifist!

633
00:49:40,214 --> 00:49:41,482
Shit.

634
00:49:41,515 --> 00:49:44,118
Thank you. Thank you.

635
00:49:45,252 --> 00:49:47,221
So, what? You kidnapping me?

636
00:49:47,254 --> 00:49:49,623
What's the deal here?

637
00:49:49,657 --> 00:49:52,693
I was—

638
00:49:52,726 --> 00:49:55,629
I was hoping I could just convince you to come with me.

639
00:49:55,663 --> 00:49:57,231
So you are kidnapping me?

640
00:49:58,766 --> 00:50:02,269
I have to take you to a baseball game.

641
00:50:02,303 --> 00:50:04,772
- You what? - Tonight's game.

642
00:50:04,805 --> 00:50:06,740
Red Sox, A's.

643
00:50:06,774 --> 00:50:08,442
Why?

644
00:50:09,743 --> 00:50:11,612
Something will happen there.

645
00:50:11,645 --> 00:50:14,482
I don't know what, but we'll find out when it does.

646
00:50:16,817 --> 00:50:19,553
My name's Ray Kinsella. You used my father's name...

647
00:50:19,587 --> 00:50:22,189
for a character in one of your stories.

648
00:50:22,223 --> 00:50:23,657
John Kinsella.

649
00:50:23,691 --> 00:50:27,261
You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?

650
00:50:27,294 --> 00:50:28,696
I don't—

651
00:50:28,729 --> 00:50:32,533
I don't blame you for thinking that, but, no, I'm not.

652
00:50:32,566 --> 00:50:35,803
I swear to God. I am the least crazy person I have ever known.

653
00:50:35,836 --> 00:50:38,439
Then why are you kidnapping me to a baseball game?

654
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,276
May I s—

655
00:50:42,309 --> 00:50:44,345
Oh, please. Want a cup of coffee?

656
00:50:45,646 --> 00:50:46,814
No.

657
00:50:46,847 --> 00:50:48,983
Want some cookies?

658
00:50:49,016 --> 00:50:51,318
No.

659
00:50:53,454 --> 00:50:56,290
I read an interview you gave a long time ago...

660
00:50:56,323 --> 00:50:58,993
about how you always dreamed of playing at Ebbets Field...

661
00:50:59,026 --> 00:51:02,530
and how sad you felt when they tore it down. I never said that.

662
00:51:03,731 --> 00:51:05,299
You didn't?

663
00:51:05,332 --> 00:51:07,501
I don't even recall thinking that.

664
00:51:11,705 --> 00:51:13,607
Weird.

665
00:51:16,377 --> 00:51:18,279
This whole—

666
00:51:19,446 --> 00:51:21,682
This whole thing is so weird.

667
00:51:23,651 --> 00:51:25,553
Then why go through with it?

668
00:51:28,756 --> 00:51:30,357
It's a long story.

669
00:51:35,396 --> 00:51:37,531
But it's a really good story.

670
00:51:37,565 --> 00:51:39,600
And I'll tell you on the way.

671
00:51:39,633 --> 00:51:42,036
I'm not gonna get rid of you, am I? No.

672
00:51:42,069 --> 00:51:45,739
If you just come to this game with me, I swear to God, I will never bother you again.

673
00:51:45,773 --> 00:51:48,776
Not even— Not even a Christmas card.

674
00:51:56,350 --> 00:51:58,452
Your attention, please. For the A's—

675
00:51:58,485 --> 00:52:00,588
So what do you do with yourself these days?

676
00:52:00,621 --> 00:52:04,758
I live, I work. I learned how to cook.

677
00:52:04,792 --> 00:52:07,494
I take walks and watch sunsets.

678
00:52:08,896 --> 00:52:11,365
Don't you miss being involved? Oh.

679
00:52:11,398 --> 00:52:14,802
I was the East Coast distributor of "involved."

680
00:52:14,835 --> 00:52:17,771
I ate it, drank it, breathed it.

681
00:52:17,805 --> 00:52:21,542
Then they killed Martin. They killed Bobby.

682
00:52:21,575 --> 00:52:23,744
They elected Tricky Dick twice,

683
00:52:23,777 --> 00:52:26,380
and now people like you think I— I must be miserable...

684
00:52:26,413 --> 00:52:28,382
because I'm not involved anymore.

685
00:52:28,415 --> 00:52:30,384
Well, I got news for you.

686
00:52:30,417 --> 00:52:32,720
I spent all my misery years ago.

687
00:52:32,753 --> 00:52:34,922
I got no more pain left for any of you.

688
00:52:34,955 --> 00:52:37,558
I gave at the office.

689
00:52:38,425 --> 00:52:40,794
So what do you want?

690
00:52:40,828 --> 00:52:43,464
I want them to stop looking to me for answers,

691
00:52:43,497 --> 00:52:46,934
begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader.

692
00:52:46,967 --> 00:52:49,536
I want them to start thinking for themselves.

693
00:52:49,570 --> 00:52:51,839
And I want my privacy.

694
00:52:51,872 --> 00:52:53,841
No, I meant...

695
00:52:53,874 --> 00:52:56,443
what do you want?

696
00:53:00,447 --> 00:53:01,849
Oh.

697
00:53:01,882 --> 00:53:03,817
Dog and a beer.

698
00:53:06,553 --> 00:53:10,491
Two. Seven bucks.

699
00:53:10,524 --> 00:53:14,561
Okay, I understand. You should be entitled to as much privacy as you want,

700
00:53:14,595 --> 00:53:17,364
but why stop writing?

701
00:53:17,398 --> 00:53:19,633
I haven't published a word in 17 years,

702
00:53:19,667 --> 00:53:22,703
and still I have to endure lunatics like you.

703
00:53:22,736 --> 00:53:25,939
What do you think would happen if I suddenly came out with a new book?

704
00:53:25,973 --> 00:53:27,841
They'd bleed me dry.

705
00:53:42,189 --> 00:53:44,625
Go the distance.

706
00:53:52,633 --> 00:53:54,802
Go the distance.

707
00:54:14,788 --> 00:54:16,790
What's the matter?

708
00:54:19,927 --> 00:54:22,663
- You didn't see that? - See what?

709
00:54:29,937 --> 00:54:32,039
I'm sorry. I guess you didn't have to be here.

710
00:54:32,072 --> 00:54:34,007
What?

711
00:54:36,810 --> 00:54:39,680
Whenever you want to go, we can go.

712
00:54:39,713 --> 00:54:41,648
Fine. Let's go.

713
00:55:27,961 --> 00:55:29,830
What is it you're not telling me?

714
00:55:31,665 --> 00:55:33,567
I've already taken up too much of your time.

715
00:55:46,613 --> 00:55:48,982
I wish I had your passion, Ray.

716
00:55:49,016 --> 00:55:52,719
Misdirected though it might be, it is still a passion.

717
00:55:52,753 --> 00:55:55,756
I used to feel that way about things, but—

718
00:55:58,592 --> 00:56:00,594
You got another message, didn't you?

719
00:56:00,627 --> 00:56:02,663
You'll think I'm crazy.

720
00:56:02,696 --> 00:56:05,532
I already think you're crazy. What did it say?

721
00:56:09,002 --> 00:56:10,904
It said, "The man's done enough.

722
00:56:10,938 --> 00:56:12,906
Leave him alone."

723
00:56:32,192 --> 00:56:34,561
"Moonlight" Graham.

724
00:56:34,595 --> 00:56:36,063
You saw it!

725
00:56:36,096 --> 00:56:38,332
Saw what?

726
00:56:38,365 --> 00:56:41,802
You saw it. New York Giants, 1922.

727
00:56:41,835 --> 00:56:43,770
He played one game. He never got to bat.

728
00:56:43,804 --> 00:56:45,906
You saw it! What did I see, Ray?

729
00:56:45,939 --> 00:56:49,076
Chisholm, Minnesota. Goddamn it, man. We were the only ones who saw it.

730
00:56:49,109 --> 00:56:51,612
Did you hear the voice too?

731
00:56:51,645 --> 00:56:54,815
It's all right to admit it. It's what told me to find you. Did you— Did you hear it?

732
00:56:56,817 --> 00:56:58,685
"Go the distance."

733
00:56:59,853 --> 00:57:02,789
Yes. Do you know what it means?

734
00:57:02,823 --> 00:57:04,958
Yes. What?

735
00:57:04,992 --> 00:57:08,195
It means we're going to Minnesota to find "Moonlight" Graham.

736
00:57:08,228 --> 00:57:10,364
We're going— We?

737
00:57:10,397 --> 00:57:12,666
I must be out of my mind.

738
00:57:12,699 --> 00:57:14,902
What do we do— What do we do when we find him?

739
00:57:14,935 --> 00:57:17,671
How the hell am I supposed to know that?

740
00:57:17,704 --> 00:57:20,807
That's right. You're right. You're right.

741
00:57:20,841 --> 00:57:23,844
This is so bitchin'. I don't believe I'm doing this.

742
00:57:41,428 --> 00:57:43,730
Hey, Annie, guess what.

743
00:57:43,764 --> 00:57:47,668
I'm with Terence Mann. Oh, my God. You kidnapped him.

744
00:57:47,701 --> 00:57:50,637
No, no. No, I didn't. He wanted to.

745
00:57:50,671 --> 00:57:52,906
Look. I'm really sorry, but I'm gonna be a few days longer.

746
00:57:52,940 --> 00:57:55,075
We're— We're going to Minnesota now.

747
00:57:55,108 --> 00:57:58,712
I don't believe this. What's in Minnesota?

748
00:57:58,745 --> 00:58:01,014
An old ballplayer. I'll explain when I get home.

749
00:58:01,048 --> 00:58:03,083
How are things with you?

750
00:58:03,116 --> 00:58:06,687
Um, fine. Great. Look, Ann, I gotta go, okay?

751
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,722
Um, give Karin a hug for me,

752
00:58:08,755 --> 00:58:11,191
and... I love you.

753
00:58:11,224 --> 00:58:14,661
I love you too. Hey.

754
00:58:14,695 --> 00:58:16,663
Someday explain all this to me, okay?

755
00:58:16,697 --> 00:58:20,734
I'll try. Bye-bye. Bye.

756
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,875
Why didn't you tell him?

757
00:58:31,712 --> 00:58:33,680
Annie, you got no choice in the matter.

758
00:58:38,251 --> 00:58:40,887
Half a dozen Grahams.

759
00:58:40,921 --> 00:58:43,724
No Archibald. No "Moonlight."

760
00:58:45,025 --> 00:58:46,960
Follow me.

761
00:58:58,305 --> 00:59:00,207
Hello.

762
00:59:01,742 --> 00:59:03,844
Excuse me. Maybe you can help us.

763
00:59:03,877 --> 00:59:06,780
We're looking for an ex-baseball player named Archibald Graham.

764
00:59:06,813 --> 00:59:08,248
Oh, you mean Doc Graham.

765
00:59:08,281 --> 00:59:10,917
No. I think his nickname was "Moonlight."

766
00:59:10,951 --> 00:59:14,054
- Well, that's Dr. Graham. - Dr. Graham?

767
00:59:14,087 --> 00:59:17,891
His, uh, baseball career never amounted to much, so he went back to school.

768
00:59:17,924 --> 00:59:19,926
His father was a doctor.

769
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,029
Do you know where we can find him?

770
00:59:22,062 --> 00:59:24,931
It's nothing bad. We're not from the I.R.S. or anything.

771
00:59:25,966 --> 00:59:27,300
Doc Graham is dead.

772
00:59:27,334 --> 00:59:30,037
He died in 1972.

773
00:59:32,973 --> 00:59:37,344
"And there were times when children could not afford eyeglasses or milk or clothing.

774
00:59:37,377 --> 00:59:41,014
Yet no child was ever denied these essentials...

775
00:59:41,048 --> 00:59:43,850
because, in the background, there was always Dr. Graham.

776
00:59:43,884 --> 00:59:46,920
Without any fanfare or publicity,

777
00:59:46,953 --> 00:59:49,089
the glasses or the milk...

778
00:59:49,122 --> 00:59:50,824
or the ticket to the ball game...

779
00:59:50,857 --> 00:59:53,794
found their way into the child's pocket."

780
00:59:53,827 --> 00:59:56,263
You wrote that.

781
00:59:56,296 --> 00:59:58,765
The day he died. Can I see that?

782
00:59:58,799 --> 01:00:00,801
You're a good writer.

783
01:00:00,834 --> 01:00:02,736
So are you.

784
01:00:08,141 --> 01:00:10,077
Something's missing.

785
01:00:11,878 --> 01:00:14,281
Well, he sounds like he was a wonderful man.

786
01:00:16,116 --> 01:00:19,386
Half the towns in North America have a Doc Graham.

787
01:00:19,419 --> 01:00:23,290
What makes this one so special we have to travel halfway across the country to find him,

788
01:00:23,323 --> 01:00:26,159
16 years after he died?

789
01:00:26,193 --> 01:00:28,095
There's gotta be more.

790
01:00:34,201 --> 01:00:35,802
What else?

791
01:00:35,836 --> 01:00:38,271
He always wore an overcoat,

792
01:00:38,305 --> 01:00:40,407
he had white hair,

793
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,375
and he always carried an umbrella.

794
01:00:42,409 --> 01:00:44,211
What was the umbrella for?

795
01:00:44,244 --> 01:00:48,081
I think it got to be a habit. You know, something to hang on to.

796
01:00:48,115 --> 01:00:52,152
But if you asked him, he really said he used it to beat away his lady admirers.

797
01:00:52,185 --> 01:00:53,887
Tell me about his wife.

798
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,922
Alicia.

799
01:00:57,290 --> 01:01:01,161
She moved to South Carolina after Doc passed.

800
01:01:02,462 --> 01:01:05,899
She passed a couple years later.

801
01:01:05,932 --> 01:01:09,069
She always wore blue.

802
01:01:09,102 --> 01:01:13,306
The shopkeepers in town would stock blue hats...

803
01:01:13,340 --> 01:01:18,211
because they knew, if Doc walked by, he'd buy one.

804
01:01:20,647 --> 01:01:23,183
When they cleaned out his office,

805
01:01:23,216 --> 01:01:27,053
they found boxes of blue hats...

806
01:01:28,221 --> 01:01:31,124
that he never got around to give her.

807
01:01:31,158 --> 01:01:32,959
I'll bet you didn't know that.

808
01:01:34,027 --> 01:01:36,096
No, I didn't. Yeah.

809
01:01:38,899 --> 01:01:41,101
No screwing, no drinking,

810
01:01:41,134 --> 01:01:43,270
no opium, no midnight abortions,

811
01:01:44,437 --> 01:01:46,940
no illegitimate children,

812
01:01:46,973 --> 01:01:49,009
no shady finances.

813
01:01:49,042 --> 01:01:52,445
You sound disappointed.

814
01:01:52,479 --> 01:01:55,949
Shoeless Joe had a problem. That's why he needed you.

815
01:01:55,982 --> 01:01:58,285
This guy doesn't need us.

816
01:01:58,318 --> 01:02:00,253
Terence.

817
01:02:02,022 --> 01:02:03,223
Do you know you're missing?

818
01:02:08,962 --> 01:02:11,464
Oh, God.

819
01:02:11,498 --> 01:02:14,201
"His father, who lives in Baltimore,

820
01:02:14,234 --> 01:02:18,071
notified police after receiving no answer to repeated telephone calls."

821
01:02:18,104 --> 01:02:21,274
Shoot. I better call him.

822
01:02:21,308 --> 01:02:23,476
You, uh, want me to—

823
01:02:23,510 --> 01:02:25,378
Thanks. Yeah.

824
01:02:31,184 --> 01:02:33,353
I'm taking a walk. Be back in a while.

825
01:02:37,724 --> 01:02:40,927
What do I tell him?

826
01:03:08,321 --> 01:03:10,257
"This year's"?

827
01:03:51,631 --> 01:03:53,566
Dr. Graham?

828
01:04:02,475 --> 01:04:04,311
Dr. Graham?

829
01:04:08,615 --> 01:04:11,351
My name's Ray Kinsella. I'm from Iowa.

830
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:15,989
Are you "Moonlight" Graham?

831
01:04:21,261 --> 01:04:25,098
No one's called me "Moonlight" Graham in 50 years.

832
01:04:27,167 --> 01:04:29,269
Well, I've come a very long way to see you.

833
01:04:29,302 --> 01:04:32,105
You know, I couldn't sleep tonight. Usually I sleep like a baby.

834
01:04:33,406 --> 01:04:35,275
I told Alicia I was going to take a walk.

835
01:04:37,677 --> 01:04:40,246
Do you mind if I join you?

836
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,082
I mean, I'd like to talk to you.

837
01:04:43,149 --> 01:04:44,551
Let's walk over to my office.

838
01:04:46,686 --> 01:04:49,189
What do you want to talk to me about?

839
01:04:49,222 --> 01:04:53,059
Well, when you got to the majors, you-you played only one inning of one game.

840
01:04:53,093 --> 01:04:55,295
What happened that inning?

841
01:04:58,431 --> 01:05:00,433
bottom of the eighth inning— we were way ahead.

842
01:05:00,467 --> 01:05:03,136
I'd been up with the club about, uh— oh, about three weeks,

843
01:05:03,169 --> 01:05:05,271
but I hadn't seen any action.

844
01:05:05,305 --> 01:05:08,308
Suddenly old John McGraw points a bony finger in my direction,

845
01:05:08,341 --> 01:05:10,577
and he says, "Right field."

846
01:05:10,610 --> 01:05:14,414
Well, sir, I jumped up like I was, uh, sitting on a spring,

847
01:05:14,447 --> 01:05:17,317
grabbed my glove and ran out on the field.

848
01:05:20,553 --> 01:05:23,323
Did you get to make a play?

849
01:05:23,356 --> 01:05:25,458
They never hit the ball out of the infield.

850
01:05:27,594 --> 01:05:29,596
The game ended. The season was over.

851
01:05:31,197 --> 01:05:33,466
I knew they'd send me back down.

852
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:37,170
I couldn't bear the thought of another year in the minors.

853
01:05:37,203 --> 01:05:39,272
So I—

854
01:05:39,305 --> 01:05:41,207
I decided to hang them up.

855
01:05:42,542 --> 01:05:45,345
Go on. Sit down. Thank you.

856
01:05:47,414 --> 01:05:49,549
So what was that like?

857
01:05:51,718 --> 01:05:55,555
It was like coming this close to your dreams,

858
01:05:55,588 --> 01:05:58,591
and then watch them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.

859
01:05:58,625 --> 01:06:00,593
At the time, you don't think much of it.

860
01:06:00,627 --> 01:06:02,695
You know, we just don't recognize...

861
01:06:02,729 --> 01:06:05,231
the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening.

862
01:06:05,265 --> 01:06:09,202
Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days."

863
01:06:09,235 --> 01:06:12,105
I didn't realize that that was the only day.

864
01:06:13,506 --> 01:06:18,211
And now, Ray Kinsella, I want to ask you a question.

865
01:06:18,244 --> 01:06:20,213
What's so interesting about half an inning...

866
01:06:20,246 --> 01:06:22,715
that would make you come all the way from Iowa...

867
01:06:22,749 --> 01:06:25,418
to talk to me about it 50 years after it happened?

868
01:06:27,253 --> 01:06:29,322
I didn't really know till just now, but...

869
01:06:31,224 --> 01:06:34,761
I think it's to ask you, if you could do anything you wanted,

870
01:06:34,794 --> 01:06:37,397
if you could have a— a wish—

871
01:06:41,334 --> 01:06:44,404
And you're the kind of a man who could grant me that wish?

872
01:06:45,572 --> 01:06:48,408
I don't know. I'm just asking.

873
01:06:49,542 --> 01:06:52,412
Well, you know, I—

874
01:06:52,445 --> 01:06:54,714
I never got to bat in the major leagues.

875
01:06:54,747 --> 01:06:57,750
I'd have liked to have had that chance, just once,

876
01:06:57,784 --> 01:07:00,520
to stare down a big-league pitcher.

877
01:07:00,553 --> 01:07:05,258
To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink.

878
01:07:05,291 --> 01:07:07,760
Make him think you know something he doesn't.

879
01:07:07,794 --> 01:07:11,431
That's what I wish for— the chance to squint at a sky so blue...

880
01:07:11,464 --> 01:07:13,733
that it hurts your eyes just to look at it.

881
01:07:13,766 --> 01:07:17,971
To feel the tingle in your arm as you connect with the ball, to run the bases,

882
01:07:18,004 --> 01:07:22,242
stretch a double into a triple and flop face-first into third,

883
01:07:22,275 --> 01:07:24,644
wrap your arms around the bag.

884
01:07:24,677 --> 01:07:28,314
That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish.

885
01:07:29,816 --> 01:07:32,619
And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight...

886
01:07:32,652 --> 01:07:34,621
to make this dream come true?

887
01:07:34,654 --> 01:07:37,323
What would you say if I said yes?

888
01:07:38,525 --> 01:07:40,460
I think I'd actually believe you.

889
01:07:43,263 --> 01:07:45,565
Well, sir, there's a place where things like that happen,

890
01:07:45,598 --> 01:07:47,767
and if you want to go, I can take you.

891
01:07:52,872 --> 01:07:55,842
This is my most special place in all the world, Ray.

892
01:07:55,875 --> 01:07:57,844
Once a place touches you like this,

893
01:07:57,877 --> 01:07:59,746
the wind never blows so cold again.

894
01:08:01,781 --> 01:08:05,485
You feel for it, like it was your child.

895
01:08:06,753 --> 01:08:09,022
I can't leave Chisholm.

896
01:08:09,055 --> 01:08:12,525
I un— I understand. Okay. I do.

897
01:08:15,295 --> 01:08:19,365
But I— I really think you're supposed to come with us.

898
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:21,367
No.

899
01:08:23,469 --> 01:08:25,371
But your wish?

900
01:08:26,739 --> 01:08:28,741
It'll have to stay a wish.

901
01:08:28,775 --> 01:08:30,810
I was born here, I lived here,

902
01:08:30,843 --> 01:08:32,812
I'll die here, but no regrets.

903
01:08:34,480 --> 01:08:36,349
Fifty years ago, for five minutes,

904
01:08:36,382 --> 01:08:39,385
you came— what— you came this close.

905
01:08:39,419 --> 01:08:43,256
I mean, it would kill some men to get that close to their dream and not touch it.

906
01:08:44,624 --> 01:08:46,626
God. They'd consider it a tragedy.

907
01:08:46,659 --> 01:08:50,797
Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes,

908
01:08:50,830 --> 01:08:52,765
now, that would have been a tragedy.

909
01:08:55,401 --> 01:08:58,304
I better be getting home.

910
01:08:58,338 --> 01:09:00,540
Alicia will think I got a girlfriend.

911
01:09:01,874 --> 01:09:05,878
And he smiled.

912
01:09:05,912 --> 01:09:10,483
And then I figured, maybe we're not supposed to take him with us.

913
01:09:10,516 --> 01:09:12,418
I don't know.

914
01:09:14,354 --> 01:09:16,889
So now I don't know why in the hell we were supposed to come here.

915
01:09:16,923 --> 01:09:18,891
Maybe it was to find out...

916
01:09:18,925 --> 01:09:21,728
if one inning can change the world.

917
01:09:21,761 --> 01:09:24,797
- Think it did? - Did for these people.

918
01:09:24,831 --> 01:09:27,467
If he'd gotten a hit, he might have stayed in baseball.

919
01:09:28,901 --> 01:09:30,937
I don't know.

920
01:09:30,970 --> 01:09:33,106
Oh, your wife called before.

921
01:09:33,139 --> 01:09:34,807
She wants you to call her tonight.

922
01:09:39,846 --> 01:09:42,915
Ray?

923
01:09:42,949 --> 01:09:46,419
I'm fine. I'm just so glad it's you.

924
01:09:46,452 --> 01:09:48,688
Listen.

925
01:09:48,721 --> 01:09:50,823
I talked to the bank, and I asked them...

926
01:09:50,857 --> 01:09:53,760
if we could miss a payment or two,

927
01:09:53,793 --> 01:09:58,531
and they told me that they had just sold the note on the farm...

928
01:09:58,564 --> 01:10:02,802
to Mark... and his partners.

929
01:10:02,835 --> 01:10:06,506
Right. So they own the paper now. And he says if we don't sell to them,

930
01:10:06,539 --> 01:10:08,474
they're gonna foreclose.

931
01:10:08,508 --> 01:10:10,576
Ray,

932
01:10:10,610 --> 01:10:12,712
we don't have the money.

933
01:10:12,745 --> 01:10:14,847
Okay. Look. Um,

934
01:10:14,881 --> 01:10:17,450
I've gotta take Mr. Mann back to Boston first.

935
01:10:17,483 --> 01:10:19,652
All right? So it's, uh— No.

936
01:10:19,686 --> 01:10:21,888
Wait a second.

937
01:10:21,921 --> 01:10:23,823
I'm going to Iowa with you.

938
01:10:27,026 --> 01:10:29,162
We're coming home.

939
01:10:33,032 --> 01:10:34,967
Hell, I can't quit now.

940
01:10:35,001 --> 01:10:37,403
I gotta see this ballpark.

941
01:10:37,437 --> 01:10:40,606
Not everyone can see it. You might not.

942
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,608
Give it a try.

943
01:10:48,748 --> 01:10:50,817
I need all the karma I can get right now.

944
01:10:57,857 --> 01:11:00,927
Thanks. You're the first car by. How far you going?

945
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,896
How far you going? Iowa.

946
01:11:03,930 --> 01:11:06,566
Well, if it's okay with you, I think I'll just ride along a while.

947
01:11:06,599 --> 01:11:08,935
I play baseball.

948
01:11:08,968 --> 01:11:11,637
Hop in. All right.

949
01:11:19,579 --> 01:11:21,647
I'm looking for a place to play.

950
01:11:21,681 --> 01:11:25,885
I heard that all through the Midwest, they have towns with teams.

951
01:11:25,918 --> 01:11:29,455
And in some places, well, they'll even find you a day job...

952
01:11:29,489 --> 01:11:31,891
so you can play ball nights and weekends.

953
01:11:31,924 --> 01:11:35,495
This is your lucky day, kid. We're going someplace kind of like that.

954
01:11:37,063 --> 01:11:40,933
All right. I'm Ray Kinsella. This is Terence Mann.

955
01:11:40,967 --> 01:11:42,935
Hi.

956
01:11:42,969 --> 01:11:44,904
I'm Archie Graham.

957
01:11:57,750 --> 01:11:59,952
You know, it's funny the way he described towns, you know,

958
01:11:59,986 --> 01:12:03,556
finding you a job so that you could play on their team.

959
01:12:03,589 --> 01:12:05,858
They haven't done that for years.

960
01:12:05,892 --> 01:12:08,594
My dad did that for a while, but that was in the '20s.

961
01:12:09,962 --> 01:12:11,497
What happened to your father?

962
01:12:12,598 --> 01:12:13,966
He never made it as a ballplayer,

963
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,570
so he tried to get his son to make it for him.

964
01:12:17,603 --> 01:12:19,772
By the time I was 10, playing baseball got to be...

965
01:12:19,806 --> 01:12:23,276
like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage.

966
01:12:23,309 --> 01:12:25,978
So when I was 14, I started to refuse.

967
01:12:27,713 --> 01:12:29,849
Can you believe that?

968
01:12:29,882 --> 01:12:32,852
American boy refusing to have a catch with his father?

969
01:12:32,885 --> 01:12:34,821
Why at 14?

970
01:12:36,756 --> 01:12:39,525
That's when I read The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann.

971
01:12:39,559 --> 01:12:42,128
Oh, God. I never played catch with him again.

972
01:12:42,161 --> 01:12:45,097
You see? That's the kind of crap people always try to lay on me.

973
01:12:45,131 --> 01:12:48,100
It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father. I— I know.

974
01:12:51,637 --> 01:12:53,539
Anyway, when I was 17,

975
01:12:54,874 --> 01:12:57,076
I packed my things, said something awful and left.

976
01:12:58,945 --> 01:13:01,914
After a while, I wanted to come home, but I didn't know how.

977
01:13:03,049 --> 01:13:05,918
Made it back for the funeral though.

978
01:13:16,596 --> 01:13:18,097
What was the awful thing you said?

979
01:13:20,099 --> 01:13:22,735
To your father.

980
01:13:22,768 --> 01:13:25,638
Oh.

981
01:13:25,671 --> 01:13:29,141
I said I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.

982
01:13:30,910 --> 01:13:32,912
Who was his hero?

983
01:13:32,945 --> 01:13:34,814
Shoeless Joe Jackson.

984
01:13:37,850 --> 01:13:40,119
You knew he wasn't a criminal.

985
01:13:40,152 --> 01:13:42,054
Then why did you say it?

986
01:13:43,789 --> 01:13:45,691
I was 17.

987
01:13:49,929 --> 01:13:52,632
Son of a bitch died before I could take it back.

988
01:13:54,100 --> 01:13:56,035
Before I could tell him—

989
01:13:57,670 --> 01:13:59,572
You know.

990
01:14:01,841 --> 01:14:03,743
He never met my wife.

991
01:14:05,211 --> 01:14:07,880
He never saw his granddaughter.

992
01:14:09,715 --> 01:14:12,985
This is your penance. I know.

993
01:14:13,019 --> 01:14:15,788
I can't bring my father back—

994
01:14:15,821 --> 01:14:18,124
So the least you can do is bring back his hero.

995
01:14:19,659 --> 01:14:21,594
Well—

996
01:14:23,996 --> 01:14:27,133
Now I know what everybody's purpose here is,

997
01:14:28,734 --> 01:14:30,670
except mine.

998
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:35,875
Hey.

999
01:15:00,900 --> 01:15:02,935
Daddy!

1000
01:15:02,969 --> 01:15:04,904
Karin, come here.

1001
01:15:07,239 --> 01:15:09,675
Hi! Oh!

1002
01:15:09,709 --> 01:15:11,877
Oh! We missed you.

1003
01:15:11,911 --> 01:15:14,880
Are you, okay? Yeah. This is Terence Mann.

1004
01:15:14,914 --> 01:15:16,215
Terry.

1005
01:15:16,248 --> 01:15:18,150
Welcome. Thank you.

1006
01:15:18,184 --> 01:15:22,455
- Hi, Terry. - And this young fella is— This is Archie Graham.

1007
01:15:22,488 --> 01:15:24,156
Archie.

1008
01:15:24,190 --> 01:15:26,959
He's come to practice with the team.

1009
01:15:26,993 --> 01:15:29,195
Yeah? Well, he's gonna be able to do a lot more than that.

1010
01:15:30,496 --> 01:15:31,697
What does that mean?

1011
01:15:34,867 --> 01:15:36,936
Let's go. Come on. It's been a long—

1012
01:15:36,969 --> 01:15:39,171
Let's go.

1013
01:15:39,205 --> 01:15:41,474
Well, what do you say? What do you say? One time.

1014
01:15:41,507 --> 01:15:45,211
Hey, Ray. Welcome back.

1015
01:15:45,244 --> 01:15:47,480
Thanks, Joe. Oh, my God.

1016
01:15:47,513 --> 01:15:49,849
What? That's Shoeless Joe Jackson.

1017
01:15:49,882 --> 01:15:51,917
Well, of course it is.

1018
01:15:51,951 --> 01:15:54,787
You mean you didn't believe me? I thought I did, but—

1019
01:15:54,820 --> 01:15:57,023
Oh, my God.

1020
01:15:58,190 --> 01:16:00,192
- Hi, Annie. - Hi, Joe.

1021
01:16:00,226 --> 01:16:01,861
Hi. Good to see you.

1022
01:16:01,894 --> 01:16:05,931
Yeah. Terry, I'd like you to meet Shoeless Joe Jackson.

1023
01:16:05,965 --> 01:16:07,833
Joe, Terry Mann.

1024
01:16:09,235 --> 01:16:12,138
It's a pleasure meeting you. The pleasure's mine.

1025
01:16:12,171 --> 01:16:16,175
Ray, I hope you don't mind, but we got tired of just having practices,

1026
01:16:16,208 --> 01:16:20,112
so we brought another team out with us so we could have some real games.

1027
01:16:20,146 --> 01:16:23,015
I don't mind. Where'd they come from?

1028
01:16:23,049 --> 01:16:25,284
Where did we come from?

1029
01:16:25,317 --> 01:16:27,353
You wouldn't believe how many guys wanted to play here.

1030
01:16:27,386 --> 01:16:29,255
We had to beat them off with a stick.

1031
01:16:29,288 --> 01:16:32,058
Hey. That's Smoky Joe Wood.

1032
01:16:32,091 --> 01:16:34,093
And Mel Ott.

1033
01:16:34,126 --> 01:16:36,095
And Gil Hodges.

1034
01:16:36,128 --> 01:16:38,230
Ty Cobb wanted to play.

1035
01:16:38,264 --> 01:16:40,933
None of us could stand the son of a bitch when we were alive,

1036
01:16:40,966 --> 01:16:42,735
so we told him to stick it.

1037
01:16:45,171 --> 01:16:48,541
Hey. Are you Graham?

1038
01:16:48,574 --> 01:16:51,010
Yes, sir.

1039
01:16:51,043 --> 01:16:54,847
Well, what are you doing on the sidelines here? You came to play ball, didn't you?

1040
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:56,916
Yes, sir.

1041
01:16:56,949 --> 01:16:58,784
All right. Well, go warm up.

1042
01:16:59,885 --> 01:17:01,787
Yes, sir.

1043
01:17:02,988 --> 01:17:04,957
Rookies.

1044
01:17:04,990 --> 01:17:06,926
Unbelievable.

1045
01:17:08,894 --> 01:17:10,996
It's more than that.

1046
01:17:11,030 --> 01:17:12,998
It's perfect.

1047
01:17:22,041 --> 01:17:24,210
Hey! All right!

1048
01:17:25,311 --> 01:17:27,980
Ho! Safe!

1049
01:17:36,889 --> 01:17:39,024
Go, Graham! Go, kid!

1050
01:17:39,058 --> 01:17:42,862
Come on, Archie! God, he looks like a baby out there next to these guys.

1051
01:17:42,895 --> 01:17:45,931
- He is. -

1052
01:17:49,201 --> 01:17:51,170
Get a hit. [ Man #2 ] All right now.

1053
01:17:51,203 --> 01:17:53,172
— Let's go. Come on.

1054
01:17:57,643 --> 01:17:59,311
Oh!

1055
01:17:59,345 --> 01:18:01,213
Watch it, boy!

1056
01:18:01,247 --> 01:18:04,049
Say! Hey!

1057
01:18:04,083 --> 01:18:06,886
Don't let him shake you up, Arch! Hang in there, buddy!

1058
01:18:06,919 --> 01:18:08,821
Hey, Knuckles, what did you throw at the kid for?

1059
01:18:10,456 --> 01:18:13,192
- He winked at me. - Don't wink, kid.

1060
01:18:15,361 --> 01:18:18,097
Good thing for you he didn't throw the fastball, kid.

1061
01:18:22,201 --> 01:18:24,270
Let's see that fastball.

1062
01:18:24,303 --> 01:18:26,105
Let's go. Come on.

1063
01:18:27,907 --> 01:18:29,441
- Yeah! - Ball.

1064
01:18:29,475 --> 01:18:32,144
Boo! Hey, ump! Come on!

1065
01:18:32,178 --> 01:18:34,146
Give us a break!

1066
01:18:34,180 --> 01:18:36,248
Hey, ump.

1067
01:18:36,282 --> 01:18:38,484
How about a warning? Sure.

1068
01:18:38,517 --> 01:18:41,220
Watch out you don't get killed.

1069
01:18:41,253 --> 01:18:42,955
Time!

1070
01:18:42,988 --> 01:18:46,225
Time!

1071
01:18:46,258 --> 01:18:49,061
All right. Those first two were high and tight.

1072
01:18:49,094 --> 01:18:51,096
So, what do you think the next one's gonna be?

1073
01:18:51,130 --> 01:18:53,199
Well,

1074
01:18:53,232 --> 01:18:56,135
either low and away or in my ear.

1075
01:18:56,168 --> 01:18:58,103
Well, he's not gonna want to load the bases,

1076
01:18:58,137 --> 01:19:00,039
so look for low and away.

1077
01:19:00,072 --> 01:19:02,174
Right.

1078
01:19:02,208 --> 01:19:05,311
But watch out for in your ear.

1079
01:19:05,344 --> 01:19:07,513
Come on, Archie! Let's go, kid!

1080
01:19:07,546 --> 01:19:10,449
Batter, batter, batter, batter! Come on, Arch.

1081
01:19:10,482 --> 01:19:13,485
Just takes one. You'll never hit it, kid.

1082
01:19:20,259 --> 01:19:23,062
- Load 'em up now. Load 'em up, baby. - Yeah, way to help him.

1083
01:19:24,230 --> 01:19:25,931
Yeah. Yeah.

1084
01:19:25,965 --> 01:19:27,366
Tag it up!

1085
01:19:27,399 --> 01:19:30,135
- Go, go, go, go! - Go home!

1086
01:19:31,470 --> 01:19:34,106
- Safe! - Son of a—

1087
01:19:34,139 --> 01:19:36,175
Way to go, Arch!

1088
01:19:36,208 --> 01:19:39,445
Way to go! Attaboy, Arch! Way to go!

1089
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:44,450
This is the wave! Way to go, Graham!

1090
01:19:44,483 --> 01:19:46,952
Yeah, Archie. All right.

1091
01:19:46,986 --> 01:19:50,556
That's it. No. That's what we needed. Got home. Got home. Yeah.

1092
01:19:50,589 --> 01:19:54,260
- Yeah. Way to go, eh? - All right, Shoe. Let's go now. Little bingo.

1093
01:19:54,293 --> 01:19:57,263
All right, Shoe. Let's go now. Little bingo, Joe. Little bingo.

1094
01:20:22,221 --> 01:20:25,457
- Hmm. - Well, what do you say? What do you say? One time.

1095
01:20:25,491 --> 01:20:29,128
What is this? What is this? What is this? What is this jerk doing?

1096
01:20:29,161 --> 01:20:31,297
- Hi! - Who is this?

1097
01:20:31,330 --> 01:20:33,999
Wreck him! Time.

1098
01:20:34,033 --> 01:20:36,001
Let me at him! You're interrupting the game, Mark.

1099
01:20:37,236 --> 01:20:39,405
Ray.

1100
01:20:39,438 --> 01:20:42,408
Ray, it's time to put away your little fantasies and come down to earth.

1101
01:20:42,441 --> 01:20:44,410
It's not a fantasy, Mark. They're real.

1102
01:20:44,443 --> 01:20:46,278
Who is real?

1103
01:20:46,312 --> 01:20:49,515
Shoeless Joe Jackson, the White Sox— all of them.

1104
01:20:49,548 --> 01:20:53,052
- You mean— - No. He can't— He can't see any of it.

1105
01:20:54,153 --> 01:20:56,088
Well, who's this, Elvis?

1106
01:20:56,121 --> 01:20:57,389
Ray.

1107
01:20:59,491 --> 01:21:01,493
As a matter of fact, it's Terence Mann.

1108
01:21:01,527 --> 01:21:03,529
Yeah, right. How do you do? I'm the Easter Bunny.

1109
01:21:03,562 --> 01:21:06,098
Ray, listen. We need to settle this thing now.

1110
01:21:06,131 --> 01:21:08,267
Ray, you have no money. Look. I'm not selling you my home.

1111
01:21:08,300 --> 01:21:10,436
Ray! Ray! You have no money!

1112
01:21:10,469 --> 01:21:14,239
You have a stack of bills to choke a pig, and come fall, you got no crop to sell.

1113
01:21:14,273 --> 01:21:17,509
But I do have a deal to offer you that's gonna allow you to stay on the land.

1114
01:21:17,543 --> 01:21:21,146
Daddy, we don't have to sell the farm.

1115
01:21:21,180 --> 01:21:23,382
Let us buy you out. We'll leave the house.

1116
01:21:23,415 --> 01:21:25,517
Live on it rent-free as long you want. What about the baseball field?

1117
01:21:25,551 --> 01:21:30,622
Ray, do you realize how much this land is worth? Yeah. Yeah.

1118
01:21:30,656 --> 01:21:33,559
2,200 bucks an acre.

1119
01:21:33,592 --> 01:21:36,395
Well, then you gotta realize we can't keep a useless baseball diamond...

1120
01:21:36,428 --> 01:21:39,398
in the middle of rich farmland. Read my lips, Mark. We're staying, all right?

1121
01:21:39,431 --> 01:21:42,568
- We're staying. - Ray, you're bankrupt!

1122
01:21:42,601 --> 01:21:45,404
I'm offering you a way to keep your home because I love my sister.

1123
01:21:45,437 --> 01:21:47,639
Now, my partners, Ray— they don't give a damn about you,

1124
01:21:47,673 --> 01:21:50,309
and they're ready to foreclose right now.

1125
01:21:50,342 --> 01:21:53,078
Daddy, we don't have to sell the farm.

1126
01:21:53,112 --> 01:21:55,114
Karin, please!

1127
01:21:55,147 --> 01:21:57,316
Just wait. Wait.

1128
01:21:59,151 --> 01:22:01,253
People will come.

1129
01:22:02,454 --> 01:22:04,556
What— What people, sweetheart?

1130
01:22:04,590 --> 01:22:09,161
From all over. They'll just decide to take a vacation, see?

1131
01:22:09,194 --> 01:22:11,497
And they'll come to Iowa City.

1132
01:22:11,530 --> 01:22:13,532
They'll think it's really boring.

1133
01:22:13,565 --> 01:22:16,168
So they'll drive up and want to pay us.

1134
01:22:16,201 --> 01:22:18,170
Like buying a ticket.

1135
01:22:20,272 --> 01:22:23,342
Wh— You're not seriously listening to this, are you?

1136
01:22:23,375 --> 01:22:26,278
Yes.

1137
01:22:26,311 --> 01:22:29,615
Wait a minute. Why would anybody pay money to come here?

1138
01:22:30,682 --> 01:22:33,118
To watch the game.

1139
01:22:33,152 --> 01:22:37,456
It'll be just like when they were little kids, a long time ago.

1140
01:22:37,489 --> 01:22:40,459
And they'll watch the game, remember what it was like.

1141
01:22:40,492 --> 01:22:43,195
What the hell is she talking about?

1142
01:22:43,228 --> 01:22:45,264
People will come.

1143
01:22:45,297 --> 01:22:47,666
All right, all right, all right. This is fascinating. It is.

1144
01:22:47,699 --> 01:22:51,270
But the fact remains is that you don't have the money to bring the mortgage up to date,

1145
01:22:51,303 --> 01:22:53,372
so you're still gonna have to sell.

1146
01:22:54,606 --> 01:22:57,709
I'm sorry, Ray. We got no choice.

1147
01:23:01,380 --> 01:23:04,583
Ray. People will come, Ray.

1148
01:23:06,518 --> 01:23:08,487
They'll come to Iowa...

1149
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:11,623
for reasons they can't even fathom.

1150
01:23:11,657 --> 01:23:16,228
They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it.

1151
01:23:16,261 --> 01:23:19,498
They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children,

1152
01:23:19,531 --> 01:23:22,234
longing for the past.

1153
01:23:22,267 --> 01:23:26,338
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say.

1154
01:23:26,371 --> 01:23:28,941
"It's only $20 per person."

1155
01:23:28,974 --> 01:23:31,944
They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it.

1156
01:23:31,977 --> 01:23:36,448
For it is money they have and peace they like. Ray.

1157
01:23:36,482 --> 01:23:38,383
Just sign the papers.

1158
01:23:38,417 --> 01:23:41,286
And they'll walk out to the bleachers...

1159
01:23:42,654 --> 01:23:46,358
and sit in their shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon.

1160
01:23:48,460 --> 01:23:52,264
They'll find they have reserved seats...

1161
01:23:52,297 --> 01:23:55,334
somewhere along one of the baselines,

1162
01:23:55,367 --> 01:23:57,469
where they sat when they were children...

1163
01:23:57,503 --> 01:24:00,272
and cheered their heroes.

1164
01:24:00,305 --> 01:24:02,541
And they'll watch the game,

1165
01:24:02,574 --> 01:24:06,678
and it'll be as if they had dipped themselves in magic waters.

1166
01:24:06,712 --> 01:24:09,314
The memories will be so thick,

1167
01:24:09,348 --> 01:24:11,783
they'll have to brush them away from their faces.

1168
01:24:11,817 --> 01:24:16,321
Ray, when the bank opens in the morning, they'll foreclose.

1169
01:24:16,355 --> 01:24:18,490
People will come, Ray.

1170
01:24:18,524 --> 01:24:22,227
You're broke, Ray. You sell now, or you lose everything.

1171
01:24:23,495 --> 01:24:25,631
The one constant through all the years, Ray,

1172
01:24:25,664 --> 01:24:28,467
has been baseball.

1173
01:24:28,500 --> 01:24:32,004
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.

1174
01:24:32,037 --> 01:24:33,839
It's been erased like a blackboard,

1175
01:24:33,872 --> 01:24:35,774
rebuilt, and erased again.

1176
01:24:37,576 --> 01:24:40,546
But baseball has marked the time.

1177
01:24:42,281 --> 01:24:45,717
This field, this game.

1178
01:24:45,751 --> 01:24:48,654
It's a part of our past, Ray.

1179
01:24:48,687 --> 01:24:52,724
It reminds us of all that once was good,

1180
01:24:52,758 --> 01:24:55,561
and it could be again.

1181
01:24:55,594 --> 01:24:57,729
Oh,

1182
01:24:57,763 --> 01:25:01,333
people will come, Ray.

1183
01:25:01,366 --> 01:25:03,335
People will most definitely come.

1184
01:25:04,670 --> 01:25:07,839
Ray, you will lose everything.

1185
01:25:07,873 --> 01:25:10,275
You will be evicted.

1186
01:25:21,086 --> 01:25:22,821
Come on, Ray.

1187
01:25:43,809 --> 01:25:46,712
- I'm not signing. - You're crazy.

1188
01:25:46,745 --> 01:25:49,781
- Absolutely nuts! - I can't do it, pal.

1189
01:25:49,815 --> 01:25:54,519
I mean, Annie, Ray, you build a baseball field in the middle of nowhere,

1190
01:25:54,553 --> 01:25:56,622
and you sit here and you stare at nothing.

1191
01:25:56,655 --> 01:25:59,524
- It's not nothing. - And turn your daughter into a damn space case.

1192
01:25:59,558 --> 01:26:00,892
- Get your hands off her! - I'm trying to help you!

1193
01:26:03,395 --> 01:26:05,297
Karin?

1194
01:26:09,701 --> 01:26:11,670
- Is she all right? - I don't know.

1195
01:26:11,703 --> 01:26:13,672
- Is she breathing? - Should I get the car?

1196
01:26:18,844 --> 01:26:20,579
I'm gonna call emergency.

1197
01:26:22,681 --> 01:26:25,717
Annie, wait. What?

1198
01:26:42,567 --> 01:26:44,836
Just wait.

1199
01:27:02,521 --> 01:27:04,456
What have we got here?

1200
01:27:04,489 --> 01:27:06,558
She fell.

1201
01:27:12,197 --> 01:27:14,933
This child's choking to death.

1202
01:27:14,966 --> 01:27:17,169
Get her up.

1203
01:27:17,202 --> 01:27:19,471
Hold her steady now.

1204
01:27:24,876 --> 01:27:27,746
Hot dog. Stuck in her throat.

1205
01:27:27,779 --> 01:27:29,881
Oh, she'll be all right.

1206
01:27:29,915 --> 01:27:32,417
She'll be turning handsprings before you know it.

1207
01:27:36,655 --> 01:27:38,557
Thank you, Doc.

1208
01:27:39,791 --> 01:27:42,961
No, son. Thank you.

1209
01:27:45,931 --> 01:27:47,933
Oh, my God. You can't go back.

1210
01:27:47,966 --> 01:27:49,901
You can't go back, can you? It's all right.

1211
01:27:49,935 --> 01:27:51,803
I'm sorry. It's all right.

1212
01:27:57,542 --> 01:27:59,845
I best be getting on home,

1213
01:27:59,878 --> 01:28:02,414
before Alicia begins to think I got a girlfriend.

1214
01:28:07,786 --> 01:28:09,788
Hey, Doc.

1215
01:28:09,821 --> 01:28:11,690
Good work, Doc.

1216
01:28:12,958 --> 01:28:14,860
Nice going, Doc.

1217
01:28:17,896 --> 01:28:19,798
Gonna miss you, Doc.

1218
01:28:22,267 --> 01:28:24,936
Win one for me one day, will you, boys?

1219
01:28:24,970 --> 01:28:26,938
Okay, Doc. You got it, Doc.

1220
01:28:34,846 --> 01:28:37,482
When did these ballplayers get here?

1221
01:28:42,087 --> 01:28:43,989
Hey, rookie!

1222
01:28:55,801 --> 01:28:57,669
You were good.

1223
01:29:10,849 --> 01:29:13,552
Do not sell this farm, Ray.

1224
01:29:13,585 --> 01:29:15,720
You gotta keep this farm.

1225
01:29:15,754 --> 01:29:17,823
Mark, you've had a very rough day.

1226
01:29:17,856 --> 01:29:19,858
Why don't you go inside and get something cold to drink?

1227
01:29:19,891 --> 01:29:22,761
Yeah. That's a— That's a good idea.

1228
01:29:24,095 --> 01:29:26,031
Don't sell the farm, Ray.

1229
01:29:35,006 --> 01:29:37,676
Ray.

1230
01:29:37,709 --> 01:29:40,679
We're gonna call it a day. See you tomorrow.

1231
01:29:40,712 --> 01:29:42,113
Okay. Night.

1232
01:29:46,818 --> 01:29:48,653
Hey, do you want to come with us?

1233
01:29:53,058 --> 01:29:56,061
- You mean it? - No, not you.

1234
01:29:56,094 --> 01:29:58,563
Him.

1235
01:30:01,933 --> 01:30:03,935
Him? Come with you?

1236
01:30:03,969 --> 01:30:05,937
Out there. What is out there?

1237
01:30:05,971 --> 01:30:07,873
Come and find out.

1238
01:30:07,906 --> 01:30:09,908
Wait a second. Wait a second. Why him?

1239
01:30:09,941 --> 01:30:12,077
I built this field. You wouldn't be here if it weren't for me.

1240
01:30:12,110 --> 01:30:14,179
Ray, for God's sake. I'm unattached. You have a family.

1241
01:30:14,212 --> 01:30:17,616
I know, but I want to know what's out there. I want to see it.

1242
01:30:17,649 --> 01:30:19,718
But you're not invited.

1243
01:30:21,953 --> 01:30:24,990
Not invited? What do you mean I'm not invited?

1244
01:30:25,023 --> 01:30:28,159
That's my corn out there. You guys are guests in my corn. Ray.

1245
01:30:28,193 --> 01:30:30,762
No. Wait. I have done everything I've been asked to do.

1246
01:30:30,795 --> 01:30:32,831
I didn't understand it, but I've done it.

1247
01:30:32,864 --> 01:30:35,066
And I haven't once asked what's in it for me.

1248
01:30:35,100 --> 01:30:38,937
What are you saying, Ray? I'm saying... what's in it for me?

1249
01:30:38,970 --> 01:30:40,939
Is that why you did this?

1250
01:30:40,972 --> 01:30:42,841
For you?

1251
01:30:47,846 --> 01:30:49,848
I think you better stay here, Ray.

1252
01:30:53,852 --> 01:30:54,786
Why?

1253
01:30:56,888 --> 01:31:00,125
Ray. There was a reason they chose me,

1254
01:31:00,158 --> 01:31:02,827
just as there was a reason they chose you and this field. Why?

1255
01:31:04,095 --> 01:31:05,830
I gave that interview.

1256
01:31:05,864 --> 01:31:08,066
What interview? What are you talking about?

1257
01:31:08,099 --> 01:31:10,235
The one about Ebbets Field. The one that charged you up...

1258
01:31:10,268 --> 01:31:12,604
and sent you all the way to Boston to find me.

1259
01:31:15,674 --> 01:31:18,944
You lied to me. Well, you were kidnapping me at the time, you big jerk.

1260
01:31:18,977 --> 01:31:21,813
Well, you lied to me. You said your finger was a gun.

1261
01:31:24,983 --> 01:31:28,086
That's a good point. Ray.

1262
01:31:29,821 --> 01:31:31,156
Ray.

1263
01:31:32,290 --> 01:31:34,759
Listen to me, Ray. Listen to me.

1264
01:31:36,962 --> 01:31:39,431
There is something out there, Ray,

1265
01:31:39,464 --> 01:31:42,734
and if I have the courage to go through with this,

1266
01:31:42,767 --> 01:31:44,669
what a story it'll make.

1267
01:31:46,771 --> 01:31:49,641
"Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa."

1268
01:31:58,316 --> 01:32:02,721
What? You gonna write about it? Well, you bet I'll write about it.

1269
01:32:02,754 --> 01:32:06,124
You're gonna write about it. Well, that's what I do.

1270
01:32:10,862 --> 01:32:12,797
Good.

1271
01:32:15,066 --> 01:32:17,035
Good.

1272
01:32:26,244 --> 01:32:28,146
Honey.

1273
01:32:32,183 --> 01:32:34,886
Honey, where's he going?

1274
01:32:34,919 --> 01:32:37,856
Terry's been invited to go out with the other players.

1275
01:32:37,889 --> 01:32:40,792
How are you feeling, sweetheart? Stupid.

1276
01:32:40,825 --> 01:32:43,495
You mean out? Yeah.

1277
01:32:43,528 --> 01:32:45,730
Out.

1278
01:32:45,764 --> 01:32:47,699
Far out.

1279
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,336
I want a full description.

1280
01:32:51,369 --> 01:32:53,705
Take care of this family.

1281
01:32:56,307 --> 01:32:58,176
You be careful.

1282
01:33:57,035 --> 01:33:58,002
Bye.

1283
01:34:01,339 --> 01:34:03,241
What?

1284
01:34:09,247 --> 01:34:12,183
What are you grinning at, you ghost?

1285
01:34:12,217 --> 01:34:14,352
"If you build it,

1286
01:34:16,955 --> 01:34:18,923
he will come."

1287
01:34:31,035 --> 01:34:34,272
Oh, my God. What? What is it?

1288
01:34:37,442 --> 01:34:39,344
It's my father.

1289
01:34:45,016 --> 01:34:46,951
"Ease his pain."

1290
01:34:48,219 --> 01:34:50,188
"Go the distance."

1291
01:34:53,024 --> 01:34:54,959
It was you.

1292
01:34:58,329 --> 01:35:01,099
No, Ray. It was you.

1293
01:35:28,026 --> 01:35:30,428
My God. I—

1294
01:35:30,461 --> 01:35:34,132
I only saw him years later when he was worn down by life.

1295
01:35:35,400 --> 01:35:37,268
Look at him.

1296
01:35:39,337 --> 01:35:41,272
He's got his whole life in front of him,

1297
01:35:41,306 --> 01:35:43,174
and I'm not even a glint in his eye.

1298
01:35:48,947 --> 01:35:50,481
What do I say to him?

1299
01:35:52,951 --> 01:35:55,253
Why don't you introduce him to his granddaughter?

1300
01:35:58,389 --> 01:36:00,358
Hi.

1301
01:36:00,391 --> 01:36:03,261
Hi.

1302
01:36:03,294 --> 01:36:06,197
I just wanted to thank you folks for putting up this field and...

1303
01:36:06,231 --> 01:36:08,399
letting us play here.

1304
01:36:08,433 --> 01:36:10,335
I'm John Kinsella.

1305
01:36:12,403 --> 01:36:14,272
I'm Ray.

1306
01:36:15,440 --> 01:36:17,942
My wife, Annie. Ma'am.

1307
01:36:17,976 --> 01:36:19,711
This is my daughter Karin.

1308
01:36:19,744 --> 01:36:21,946
Karin, this is my—

1309
01:36:24,449 --> 01:36:27,252
This is John.

1310
01:36:27,285 --> 01:36:29,487
Hi, John.

1311
01:36:31,055 --> 01:36:33,024
Hiya, Karin.

1312
01:36:34,425 --> 01:36:37,495
Well, we're gonna let you two talk.

1313
01:36:39,530 --> 01:36:43,067
I mean, if all these people are gonna come, we got a lot of work to do.

1314
01:36:45,436 --> 01:36:48,273
It was very nice meeting you.

1315
01:36:48,306 --> 01:36:50,041
Ma'am.

1316
01:36:51,276 --> 01:36:53,211
Come on, hon.

1317
01:37:07,492 --> 01:37:10,328
You catch a good game.

1318
01:37:10,361 --> 01:37:12,297
Thank you.

1319
01:37:14,265 --> 01:37:16,200
It's so beautiful here.

1320
01:37:18,469 --> 01:37:20,405
For me—

1321
01:37:22,307 --> 01:37:24,242
Well, for me, it's like a dream come true.

1322
01:37:28,379 --> 01:37:30,315
Can I ask you something?

1323
01:37:34,252 --> 01:37:36,354
Is— Is this heaven?

1324
01:37:40,391 --> 01:37:42,327
It's Iowa.

1325
01:37:43,628 --> 01:37:45,596
Iowa?

1326
01:37:45,630 --> 01:37:48,032
Yeah.

1327
01:37:50,134 --> 01:37:52,003
Could have sworn it was heaven.

1328
01:38:00,678 --> 01:38:03,081
Is—

1329
01:38:03,114 --> 01:38:05,016
Is there a heaven?

1330
01:38:06,351 --> 01:38:08,286
Oh, yeah.

1331
01:38:10,121 --> 01:38:12,290
It's the place dreams come true.

1332
01:38:31,142 --> 01:38:34,145
Well, maybe this is heaven.

1333
01:38:39,217 --> 01:38:42,453
Well, good night, Ray.

1334
01:38:44,889 --> 01:38:47,058
Good night, John.

1335
01:38:56,467 --> 01:38:58,669
Hey, Dad.

1336
01:39:02,507 --> 01:39:04,442
You want to have a catch?

1337
01:39:07,278 --> 01:39:09,313
I'd like that.