DYERSVILLE, Iowa — This state’s first-ever regular season Major League Baseball game is set for Thursday, but with just a week to go workers were still assembling the ballpark, an 8,000-seat bandbox carved out of the world’s most famous cornfield.
The pop-up stadium is one strong Eloy Jiménez throw from the site where the iconic baseball movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. But the story of how the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees came to play at this still-popular tourist attraction might be worthy of its own Hollywood treatment.
Denise Stillman, a health care consultant and businesswoman from Oak Lawn, led a group of investors who bought the property in 2012 with the idea of turning it into a mecca for youth baseball tournaments.