White Sox-Cardinals 'Field Of Dreams' Game Called Off: Reports

DYERSVILLE, IA — The highly anticipated game between the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, Iowa, has been canceled, according to reports.

Ken Rosenthal, a senior writer for The Athletic, tweeted Monday the Aug. 13 “Field of Dreams” Major League Baseball game has been called off for 2020.

The decision was “not believed to be tied to additional positive tests on Cardinals” — at least 13 members of the team and staff have tested positive for the coronavirus — but was more of a “logistical problem.”

MLB has not confirmed the report. The Des Moines Register also reported it had information the game had been canceled for this year.

The White Sox were originally scheduled to play the New York Yankees in the first MLB game scheduled in Iowa, but drew the Cardinals under MLB’s shortened, regionally based schedule that limits travel between regions to limit the spread of the virus.

It's not clear what teams will play in 2021, but the involvement of the White Sox was integral to the scheduled game riffing off the 1989 blockbuster movie with an ensemble cast of Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield and, in his final film role, Burt Lancaster.

Costner’s character plows up his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come.”

The “he” is the spirit of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who was banned from baseball along with other members of the 1919 White Sox team for throwing the World Series.

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An 8,000-seat MLB regulation stadium featuring design elements of Chicago’s original Comiskey Park began last summer after MLB announced the Field of Dreams game.

It's unclear if the game will be rescheduled, or what will happen to the stadium in the Iowa cornfield.

But the Field of Dreams Movie Site will endure.

Thousands of fans of the movie, based on the W.P. Kinsella book "Shoeless Joe," visit the site in typical years, which isn’t about baseball at all.

"It's about the pursuit of one's dreams, redemption, just being able to persevere past all of the trials and tribulations people face throughout their lives," Roman Weinberg, the director of operations for Go The Distance Baseball, which owns the site, told Patch.

"It gives them hope," he said. "It's so simple yet so powerful, because the movie presents it in such a simple way."