Charles Pierce isn’t a fan of Field of Dreams. An excerpt:
This is supposed to be a film about fathers and son, and the connective generational tissue that is baseball. As such, it can’t even get Shoeless Joe Jackson hitting from the correct side of the plate? Nobody thought to check? And, even if you buy the conversion of the novel’s J.D. Salinger character into the reclusive black-activist played by James Earl Jones, having done so, do you think that character wouldn’t have noticed that there didn’t seem to be any room for Josh Gibson, or Cool Papa Bell, or Buck Leonard out there beyond the cornfield? Heaven, apparently, is as segregated as the 1939 St. Louis Browns.
Elsewhere, Dave Kindred discusses his top three sports movies. They are:
3. Raging Bull
2. Bull Durham
1. The Hustler
Each of the above links deserves a click to read the whole essay.
Thanks to Avelino for the tip.
But, if you were to visit FoD you would be near my house on the way and I could cook you dinner by way of thanks for all the great reading.
I accept.
I think you could make it here in about 15 hours if you opened that car of yours up. Maybe faster if you didn’t get pulled over.