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Go the Distance: Cubs, Reds play at Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’

By JAY COHEN hours away in Des Moines.
AP Baseball Writer “There’s moments in the
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — season where you get
David Bell’s grandfather, something different that’s
father and brother played exciting, and making sure
in the majors. Bell spent 12 you appreciate that I think
years in the big leagues is the main thing for me,”
himself and worked as a Cubs manager David Ross
coach and front office ex- said.
ecutive before taking over “We’ll be ready to go play.”
as manager of the Cincin- While people will come,
nati Reds. will they watch at home?
So yeah, “ Field of Dreams,” That could go a long way
a movie about family and toward determining if the
baseball, hits a little differ- “Field of Dreams” site be-
ently for him. comes an annual date on
“Baseball’s a big part of the major league calendar
our life,” Bell said, “and I or maybe just an occasion-
thought that the movie did al one.
a great job of kind of just Last year’s game, featur-
telling the story of how im- ing two playoff contenders
portant baseball can be to filled with stars, attracted
families and just to people Chicago White Sox players walk on the field before a baseball game against the New York nearly 6 million viewers in
in general.” Yankees in Dyersville, Iowa, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. what MLB said was the
“Field of Dreams” gets Associated Press most-watched regular-sea-
another tribute Thursday played the ghost of Shoe- play on every day.” looked packed,” Reds sec- son game on any network
night when Bell’s Reds take less Joe Jackson, died in It’s the second go-round for ond baseman Jonathan In- since 1998.
on the Chicago Cubs in May at age 67. Major League Baseball at dia said. “It’s in the middle But the lowly Cubs and
a throwback ballpark in Each team will wear spe- the site in Dyersville — pop- of nowhere, which is kind of rebuilding Reds aren’t ex-
the cornfields of eastern cial uniforms inspired by ulation of about 4,400 — crazy, to have a game like actly last year’s Yankees
Iowa, a short walk from the how the franchises looked after the New York Yankees that. We’re going to go out and White Sox. The playoff
field where Kevin Costner, in the early 20th century, and Chicago White Sox put there and enjoy it.” hopes for the NL Central
James Earl Jones, Ray Li- and Cincinnati first base- on a show last year in the Just like Jones’ wise author clubs evaporated a long
otta and Amy Madigan man Joey Votto and Chi- first MLB game in Iowa. Terence Mann says to Cost- time ago. There aren’t a lot
filmed the 1989 movie. cago outfielder Ian Happ After Aaron Judge and ner’s Ray Kinsella in the film, of major names around, ei-
Under a light blue sky with a will be on two-way mics for Giancarlo Stanton rallied people most definitely will ther.
few dashes of clouds, work- the broadcast on FOX. New York to the lead in the come. But there is nostalgia for
ers put the final touches on The Reds are considered top of the ninth inning, Tim The makeshift ballpark the movie, an Academy
the major league park on the home team, and the Anderson lifted Chicago to seats only about 8,000 fans, Award nominee for best
a warm Wednesday after- three-game set concludes a 9-8 victory with a dramat- less than the spring train- picture, and the sure-to-be
noon. A couple of youth with games in Cincinnati on ic two-run homer, sending ing homes for each team. picturesque landscape sur-
teams played on the field Saturday and Sunday. the energetic shortstop on The Cubs have strong ties rounding the game.
from the movie as Cubs But first, Iowa. a memorable trip around to the Hawkeye State, go- “It’s a popular movie that
and Reds fans wandered “Just really excited,” Cubs the bases as fireworks ex- ing back to the franchise’s resonates with a lot of peo-
around the grounds. outfielder Seiya Suzuki said ploded through the night time on WGN-TV and con- ple, and I’m no different,”
The game comes 2 1/2 through a translator. “It’s sky. tinuing to today with its Votto said. “I’m looking for-
months after Liotta, who not a field where you can “It looked amazing. It Triple-A club a couple of ward to it.”q

Fauci receives honorary Hutch Award

before Mariners game

SEATTLE (AP) — Dr. Antho- died of cancer in 1964 at graph a facemask after
ny Fauci was presented age 45.” Fauci is the sec- catching the first pitch.
with an honorary Hutch ond person to be given Fauci is President Joe
Award on Tuesday night an honorary Hutch Award, Biden’s chief medical ad-
prior to the Seattle Mari- along with former Presi- viser and director of the
ners’ game against the dent Jimmy Carter in 2016. National Institute of Allergy
New York Yankees. Fauci was greeted by and Infectious Diseases,
The Hutch Award has mostly cheers from the which is part of the Na-
been awarded by Fred Seattle crowd with some tional Institutes of Health
Hutchinson Cancer Re- boos mixed in. He threw in Bethesda, Maryland.
search Center based in out the ceremonial first Fauci has been a vocal
Seattle and typically to pitch to Seattle manager supporter of vaccines and
a Major League Baseball Scott Servais. It was far other preventive measures
player who “best exempli- better pitch than when he against COVID-19. He said Dr. Anthony Fauci throws out the first pitch before a baseball
fies the determined spirit of threw out the first pitch in he expects to retire at the game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York
the late Fred Hutchinson, a Washington in July 2020. end of Biden’s current Yankees, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Seattle. Associated Press
pitcher and manager who Servais had Fauci auto- term.q