Field of Dreams Page #6

Let's see those hands !

Who thinks

we have to stand up

to the kind of censorship

they had under Stalin?

All right. There you go.

America, l love you .

l'm proud of you .

Let's go.

We got to go.

This is great!

RAY:
l figured it out.

l figured it out.

(WHOOPl NG)

Was that great, or what?

l figured it out.

lt's just like the '60s again !

l just figured it out.

"Step outside , you Nazi cow."

l know whose pain

l'm supposed to ease.

What?

l know whose pain

l'm supposed to ease.

l just halted the spread

of neofascism in America. . .

Terence Mann .

What about him?

That's whose pain .

You sure?

l was right about building

the field , wasn't l?

Well , what's his pain?

l don't know.

How are you supposed

to ease it?

l don't know.

Ray.

Well , Ann . . .

Look, he's my favorite writer,

too ,

but what's Terence Mann

got to do with baseball?

Annie, it's incredible.

By the early '70s,

Mann decides people

have become either

too extremist

or too apathetic to listen .

So he stops writing books ,

he starts writing poetry

about whales,

and then he starts fooling

around with a computer.

Know what he does now?

He writes software

for interactive

children's videos.

They teach kids

how to resolve

their conflicts peacefully.

God , what an amazing guy.

What's that got to do

with baseball?

ln the April 1 962 issue

of Jet Magazine ,

there's a story called

"This ls Not A Kite."

lt's not his best work,

but the story's hero

is named John Kinsella,

my father.

Wow.

What do you mean , "Wow"?

Big wow! What's it got to do

with baseball?

You drive.

Okay, the last interview

he ever gave was in 1 973 .

Guess what it's about.

Some kind of team sport.

Mann was a baseball fanatic.

Listen to this.

"My earliest recurring dream

was to play at Ebbets Field

"with Jackie Robinson

and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

"lt never happened .

The Dodgers left Brooklyn .

"Ebbets Field is gone,

but l still dream that dream ."

That's sad .

RAY:
The man wrote the best

books of his generation .

He was a pioneer

in the civil rights

and the antiwar movement.

l mean , he made

the cover of Newsweek.

He knew everybody.

He did everything .

He helped shape his time.

The guy hung out

with the Beatles.

lt wasn't enough .

What he missed was baseball .

Oh , my God !

What?

"As a small boy,

he had a bat named Rosebud ."

Give me that.

Sorry.

The guy hasn't been

to a baseball game since 1 958 .

So , in order to ease his pain ,

you're supposed to take him

to a ballgame.

Yes.

Ray, this is nuttier

than building

the baseball field .

No. No, it's not.

lt's pretty weird ,

but building the field was

5 , 1 0% weirder.

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