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Field of Dreams

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Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama sports film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe. [1]

95 relations: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, AFI's 10 Top 10, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), American Film Institute, Amy Madigan, An American Tail, Art LaFleur, Baseball field, Beverly D'Angelo, Billy Strayhorn, Black Sox Scandal, Boston, Box Office Mojo, Buck Weaver, Bull Durham, Burt Lancaster, Carolco Pictures, Charles Gordon (producer), Chick Gandil, China Grove (song), Chisholm, Minnesota, Crazy (Willie Nelson song), Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song), Dickey Betts, Dodger Stadium, Don Buford, Dubuque County, Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa, Duke Ellington, Dwier Brown, Dyersville, Iowa, Eddie Cicotte, Fenway Park, Fern Persons, Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa), Frank Whaley, Gaby Hoffmann, Galena, Illinois, Gladstone bag, History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, History of the New York Giants (baseball), In the Mood (film), It's a Wonderful Life, ..., J. D. Salinger, James Earl Jones, James Horner, Jessica (instrumental), John Lindley (cinematographer), John Sebastian, Kelly Coffield Park, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Gordon (producer), Library of Congress, List of ghost films, Los Angeles Times, Michael Milhoan, Moonlight Graham, National Film Registry, Olga Kaljakin, Phil Alden Robinson, Ray Liotta, Revenge (1990 film), Rod Dedeaux, Rose Bowl (stadium), Rotten Tomatoes, Shoeless Joe (novel), Shoeless Joe Jackson, Sod, Sports film, Steve Eastin, Swede Risberg, Temp track, The Allman Brothers Band, The Boston Globe, The Doobie Brothers, The Lovin' Spoonful, Timothy Busfield, Tom Johnston (musician), TriStar Pictures, Turf management, Universal Pictures, USC Trojans baseball, W. P. Kinsella, Willie Nelson, WMAQ-TV, WOOD-TV, World Series, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (45 more) »

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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AFI's 10 Top 10

AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres.

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AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers

100 Years…100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies is a list of the most inspiring films as determined by the American Film Institute.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years...

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Amy Madigan

Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress, producer, and singer.

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An American Tail

An American Tail is a 1986 American animated musical adventure family comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment.

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Art LaFleur

Art LaFleur (born September 9, 1943) is an American character actor.

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Baseball field

A baseball field, also called a ball field, sandlot or a baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played.

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Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer, who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films (1983–2015).

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Billy Strayhorn

William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington, lasting nearly three decades.

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Black Sox Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball match fixing incident in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Buck Weaver

George Daniel "Buck" Weaver (August 18, 1890 – January 31, 1956) was an American shortstop and third baseman.

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Bull Durham

Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film.

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Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer.

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Carolco Pictures

Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an American independent motion picture production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and the first three films of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by box office bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.

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Charles Gordon (producer)

Charles Gordon is an American film producer and brother to Lawrence Gordon.

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Chick Gandil

Charles Arnold "Chick" Gandil (January 19, 1888 – December 13, 1970) was a professional baseball player.

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China Grove (song)

"China Grove" is a song on the Doobie Brothers' 1973 album The Captain and Me.

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Chisholm, Minnesota

Chisholm is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

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Crazy (Willie Nelson song)

"Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson.

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Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song)

"Daydream" is a popular song written by John Sebastian, first released in 1966.

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Dickey Betts

Forrest Richard Betts (born December 12, 1943) known as Dickey Betts, is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.

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Dodger Stadium

Dodger Stadium, occasionally called by the metonym Chavez Ravine, is a baseball park located in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the home field to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise.

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Don Buford

Donald Alvin Buford (born February 2, 1937) is a former American Major League Baseball infielder and outfielder with the Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles between 1963 and 1972.

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Dubuque County, Iowa

Dubuque County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Dwier Brown

Dwier Brown (born January 30, 1959) is an American film and television actor.

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Dyersville, Iowa

Dyersville is a city in eastern Delaware and western Dubuque counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Eddie Cicotte

Edward Victor Cicotte (June 19, 1884 – May 5, 1969), nicknamed "Knuckles", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his time with the Chicago White Sox.

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Fenway Park

Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts near Kenmore Square.

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Fern Persons

Fern Gwendolyn Persons (née Ball; July 27, 1910 – July 22, 2012) was an American film and television actress and a member of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists from 1937 until her death.

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Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)

The Field of Dreams is a baseball field and pop-culture tourist attraction built originally for the movie of the same name.

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Frank Whaley

Frank Joseph Whaley (born July 20, 1963) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and comedian.

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Gaby Hoffmann

Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles on Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls, which garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, respectively.

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Galena, Illinois

Galena is the largest city in and the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, with a population of 3,429 at the 2010 census.

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Gladstone bag

A Gladstone bag is a small portmanteau suitcase built over a rigid frame which could separate into two equal sections.

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History of the Brooklyn Dodgers

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American Major League baseball team, active primarily in the National League from 1884 until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles, where it continues its history as the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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History of the New York Giants (baseball)

The San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883 and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the season.

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In the Mood (film)

In the Mood (also known as The Woo Woo Kid) is a 1987 film directed by Phil Alden Robinson.

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945.

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J. D. Salinger

Jerome David "J.

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.

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James Horner

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores, writing over 100.

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Jessica (instrumental)

"Jessica" is an instrumental piece by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in December 1973 as the second single from the group's fourth studio album, Brothers and Sisters (1973).

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John Lindley (cinematographer)

John Warwick Lindley (born November 17, 1951) is an American cinematographer best known for his work on such films as Field of Dreams, Bewitched, Pleasantville and You've Got Mail.

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John Sebastian

John Benson Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonicist, and autoharpist, who is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000; for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969;, rockhall.com.

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Kelly Coffield Park

Kelly Coffield Park is an American actress and comedian.

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Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician.

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Lawrence Gordon (producer)

Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936) is an American producer and motion picture executive.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of ghost films

Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Michael Milhoan

Michael Milhoan (born December 19, 1957) is an American actor.

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Moonlight Graham

Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1876 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and medical doctor who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Olga Kaljakin

Olga Kaljakin (November 8, 1950 – October 6, 2008) was an American art director, graphic designer and film poster artist.

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Phil Alden Robinson

Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include Field of Dreams, Sneakers, and The Sum of All Fears.

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Ray Liotta

Raymond Allen Liotta (born Raymond Julian Vicimarli, December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor.

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Revenge (1990 film)

Revenge is a 1990 romantic thriller film directed by Tony Scott and starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Miguel Ferrer and Sally Kirkland.

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Rod Dedeaux

Raoul Martial "Rod" Dedeaux (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 2006) was an American college baseball coach who compiled what is widely recognized as among the greatest records of any coach in the sport's amateur history.

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Rose Bowl (stadium)

The Rose Bowl is a United States outdoor athletic stadium, located in Pasadena, California, a northeast suburb of Los Angeles.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Shoeless Joe (novel)

Shoeless Joe is a magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella which became better known due to its film adaptation, Field of Dreams.

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American star outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 1900s.

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Sod

Sod or turf is grass and the part of the soil beneath it held together by its roots or another piece of thin material.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film.

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Steve Eastin

Steve Eastin (born June 22, 1948) is an American character actor.

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Swede Risberg

Charles August "Swede" Risberg (October 13, 1894 – October 13, 1975) was a Major League Baseball shortstop.

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Temp track

A temp track is an existing piece of music or audio which is used in film production during the editing phase, to serve as a guideline for the tempo, mood or atmosphere the director is looking for in a scene.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band from San Jose, California.

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The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful is a U.S. rock band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and well known for a number of hit songs in the 1960s including "Summer in the City", "Do You Believe In Magic", "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?", and "Daydream".

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Timothy Busfield

Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor and director.

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Tom Johnston (musician)

Charles Thomas "Tom" Johnston (born August 15, 1948) is an American musician.

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TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991 and stylized as TRISTAR) is an American film studio that is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of Sony Pictures whose owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Turf management

Turf management or pitchcare describes the work needed to keep a sporting pitch ready for use.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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USC Trojans baseball

The USC Trojans baseball program represents the University of Southern California in college baseball.

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W. P. Kinsella

William Patrick "W.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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WMAQ-TV

WMAQ-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 29), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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WOOD-TV

WOOD-TV, virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 7), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Dreams

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