Under Go the Distance, new events have been held at the venue.
#FOELD OF DREAMS MOVIE#
Go the Distance has owned and preserved the movie site since December 28, 2012. On October 30, 2011, it was reported that a sale had been agreed upon with a private partnership called Go the Distance Baseball, headed by Denise Stillman, who died, aged 46, in 2018 from a rare form of liver cancer. On May 13, 2010, the Lansings announced they were putting the farm used for the movie up for sale. As a result, the movie site was, for the first time, entirely owned by the Lansing family. In August 2007, Rita Ameskamp sold the land containing her portion of the baseball field to Don and Becky Lansing – the owners of the remainder of the field. Consolidation of land and Go the Distance operation The event was sponsored by a DVD rental company and hosted by Lisa Loeb. Costner and his band played a selection of original songs and popular covers, including a song about Iowa that he wrote during the filming of Field of Dreams 17 years earlier. Before the screening of the film, Kevin Costner and his band (unnamed at the time, now known as Kevin Costner and Modern West) performed for two hours for the attending crowd of close to 1,000 people. Only the property owned by the Ameskamp family was allowed to be used for this event the Lansing property was closed to the public. A giant, outdoor screen was set up adjacent to the field with seating, concession, and parking along left and center field. On August 11, 2006, Austin, Texas' Alamo Drafthouse "Rolling Roadshow" (which screens films in locations unique to each film) showed Field of Dreams at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville. The book, which has also been translated into Japanese, "offers readers a glimpse of this slice of heaven here on Earth and shows how it continues to affect people who step between the chalk lines." Rolling Roadshow Mandel – Is This Heaven? The Magic of the Field of Dreams – chronicles the story of how the once make-believe location has been turned into a real and tangible place that beckons people from across the world. The two games raised over $100,000 for local charities.Ī 2002 book by author Brett H. Executive producer Tony Loiacono, who later received the key to the city, brought Hall of Famers like Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson and Bob Feller to take on Hollywood stars like Kelsey Grammer and Meat Loaf in a charity game. In 19, the Upper Deck Company sponsored a celebrity game at the field. The team's presence at the field on Sunday afternoons once a month attracted thousands of additional fans to the field. In 1990, Keith Rahe, a neighboring farmer, put together a baseball team dubbed the "Ghost Players" to entertain the visitors at the field. The two owners had operated separate tourist facilities and had also been at odds regarding commercialization of the site. The Ameskamp family returned their land to farming for a year, but then restored the remainder of the field and opened up their own souvenir stand. The field was built across the two properties because the producers wanted to place the field in a location where sunset shots would have a clear line-of-sight.Īfter filming completed, the Lansing family kept their portion of the field intact and added a small hut where visitors could buy souvenirs. Most of the baseball field, including the diamond and the adjacent house, was on a farm owned by the Lansing family, but the left and center field were on an adjacent property owned by the Ameskamp family. When production completed, the baseball diamond created for the movie was left behind.
Universal Pictures built the baseball diamond in 1988 on two farms a few miles outside Dyersville, Iowa, for the 1989 film Field of Dreams. It is located in Dyersville, Iowa, within Dubuque County.
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