The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds will play in the MLB’s Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa on Thursday, Aug. 11, and tickets are –– unsurprisingly –– very expensive.
According to StubHub, the cheapest tickets as of Monday are $780 and the most expensive are $5,200+. But what some don’t realize is that there is another game being played at the same ballpark that week.
The Quad City River Bandits, the High-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, are facing the Cedar Rapids Kernels, the High-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, at the corn-field ballpark on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Tickets for this game are still going for cheap prices, with the lowest being $82 on TicketSmarter.
While it’s not quite MLB baseball, it’s still a way to cross a Field of Dreams game off your bucketlist.
Here are facts about the field:
Dimensions: 335 feet down the lines; 380 feet to the alleys; and 400 feet to dead center.
Nods to Old Comiskey Park: The bullpens, located behind the 12-foot high padded wall in center field, are designed to resemble old Comiskey Park.
Building the Ballpark Has Required: The moving of 30,000 cubic yards of material. The installation of 4,000 tons of sand and 2,000 tons of pea gravel under the Bluegrass blend (legend, blue note and bolt cultivars).
A Game in a Cornfield: A “corn maze” adorned with MLB’s iconic silhouetted batter logo is located beyond the right field fence, near the Field of Dreams Movie Site – part of an immersive fan experience. Iowa-based Musco Lighting is providing a first-of-its-kind LED system that will also spotlight much of the 159 acres of corn that surround the ballpark.The right field fence has a unique design that accentuates the corn through a fine mesh seven-foot high green chain link fence with offset vertical support posts – meaning the posts will actually be in the corn. The stalks that produce field corn will grow 10-12 feet high. A manual scoreboard will be in the corn just behind the right field fence.
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com.