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If they build it: Lake County Fielders site moved...

In the film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner walks through his cornfield and hears someone whisper. “If you build it, he will come.” Costner’s character Ray Kinsella  somehow concludes that he should build a baseball field. And, of course, so it came to be.

FIELD OF DREAMS, Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, 1989, (c)

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Lake County Fielders-Think Baseball, Think Spring

LCF player 2

Amos Ramon smiles at a fan

On a gloomy, winter’s evening the Lake County Fielders lit up In-Laws #10 in Gurnee, reminding us that spring is on the way. Fielders’ manager Fran Riordan, hitting coach Pete Pirman, third basemen Amos Ramon and center fielder Brandon Anderson signed mini bats and caps, posed for pictures for

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News of the Old: Zion Restored… If they build it, we’ll watch the ball game

John Alexander Dowie from Zion

“Zion was founded by a man who believed the world to be flat despite his having taken a trip around it.”

So begins the entry on the town of Zion from “Illinois, A Descriptive and Historical Guide,” (1939) from the Federal Writer’s Project States Guide project.

As previously posted, The Federal Writer’s Project was controversial

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