I remember once the writer John Grisham saying something about how you can tell a lot about a community by how many parks it has, how many ballfields there are where its young people can play. Grisham used his own money, $3.8 million, to build a place for kids to play baseball, after his then young family moved to Virginia and found no ballfields nearby.Some have called the former cow pasture outside Charlottesville where Grisham built his park a sort of “Field of Dreams,” referencing the 1989 movie of the same name, a film that starred Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, and was adapted from the W.P. Kinsella novel, “Shoeless Joe.”
It remains one of my favorite books, because it’s about fathers and sons, and baseball; about time spent and time spent in leisure. It’s about dreams, and the stuff of dreams.
It remains one of my favorite books, because it’s about fathers and sons, and baseball; about time spent and time spent in leisure. It’s about dreams, and the stuff of dreams.