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Chicago White Sox: Shoeless Joe Jackson’s impact on the “Field of Dreams”

One of the "ghost players", a member of the semipro Dyersville White Hawks baseball team dressed in the uniform of the 1919 Chicago White Sox team stands on the site of center field created for the Hollywood motion picture 'Field of Dreams' on 25th August 1991 at the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa, United States. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images)

The Field of Dreams game is finally here. The mystic surrounding the game is because of the iconic 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, and James Earl Jones. The film would not be what it is without the Chicago White Sox and specifically, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson.