{"id":43826,"date":"2026-08-14T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43826"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:20:45","slug":"watch-kevin-costners-field-of-dreams-mlb-game-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43826","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kevin Costner&#8217;s &#8220;Field Of Dreams&#8221; MLB Game Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe wasn\u2019t there in person this time, but he was there in spirit. And spirit is what the night was all about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kevin-costner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-costner\" data-tag=\"kevin-costner\">Kevin Costner<\/a> provided the narration for an intro to tonight\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/field-of-dreams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_field-of-dreams\" data-tag=\"field-of-dreams\">Field of Dreams<\/a> game on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a>. It\u2019s the third edition of the Hollywood-<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mlb\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mlb\" data-tag=\"mlb\">MLB<\/a> mashup played on a field near the Iowa farmhouse where the 1989 classic was filmed. And while it wasn\u2019t quite the same as watching Costner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/08\/field-of-dreams-kevin-costner-iowa-baseball-mlb-1234814124\/\">walk out of the corn at the 2021<\/a> edition, tonight\u2019s video still delivered chills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe original film was more about the connections baseball builds in families, particularly between fathers and sons, and Costner was a key to the emotional and evocative feeling connecting all in attendance and watching on TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe two-minute video that presaged the game covered the history of baseball, what it\u2019s meant to fans and what it\u2019s meant to America with, as Costner said, \u201cstory after story\u201d; from Babe Ruth to Jackie Robinson to Kirk Gibson to Barry Bonds to last year\u2019s Dodgers. Those stories are important, he said, \u201cto remind us what baseball can make us feel, how deeply it can bring us bring us together and why it\u2019s still worth believing in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYou can watch below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd if you haven\u2019t teared up yet, before the The Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies took the field, MLB hall-famers from decades past strode from the corn onto the grass, including Goose Gossage, Cal Ripkin Jr, Andre Dawson, Mike Schmidt, Bert Blyleven and Joe Torre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYou can watch that bit below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Brad Pitt\u2019s Billy Bean <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=VDGrzU9fwHE&amp;t=143\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in another great, more recent, film about the game, \u201cHow can you not be romantic about baseball?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wasn\u2019t there in person this time, but he was there in spirit. 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