Lansing maintains the diamond himself and pays for the cost of its upkeep with proceeds from the sale of caps, T-shirts and other Field of Dreams items at a busy souvenir stand. The community of Dyersville has also benefited from all the activity generated by the ball field on Don Lansing’s farm. Two new motels…
Don Lansing has long since become accustomed to having people around his place most of the time, but he still shakes his head when he talks about the knock on his front door during the winter of 1987 that changed his life. “There was snow on the ground,” he says. “It was a lady from…
Note: Regulars here know that I’m a big baseball fan. A few years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Iowa farm that served as the location for Kevin Costner’s classic film, Field of Dreams. What follows is one of the stories I wrote about that excperience. ————————————————————————— Dyersville, Iowa, with a population of just…
Don Lansing maintains the diamond himself and pays for the cost of its upkeep with proceeds from the sale of caps, T-shirts and other Field of Dreams items at a busy souvenir stand. The community of Dyersville has also benefited from all the activity generated by the ball field on Don Lansing’s farm. Two new…