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Major League Baseball game to be played at Field of Dreams location

By Ellie Bufkin
Published August 8, 2019 2:42pm ET
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Major League Baseball game to be played at Field of Dreams location
In this undated file photo, people portraying ghost players emerge from a cornfield as they reenact a scene from the movie "Field of Dreams" at the movie site in Dyersville, Iowa. It's been 30 years since the film was released. | (CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP)

A 2020 regular season Major League Baseball game is scheduled to be played at the Iowa field made famous by Field of Dreams.

The game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will be played on Aug. 13 next season at the Dyersville, Iowa baseball field that was featured in the 1990 film starring Kevin Costner. Field of Dreams, which was widely popular and is considered by many to be a classic baseball movie, tells the story of a farmer who built a baseball field as a way to connect with his deceased father, who was a baseball player.

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