Field of Dreams ticket lottery opens today

By | July 16, 2021

A public registration for access to tickets to the Thursday, Aug. 12, MLB at Field of Dreams Presented by GEICO game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees will be available exclusively to residents of Iowa from Friday, July 16, through Friday, July 23, Major League Baseball announced today. Registration for the lottery will be limited to fans who have Iowa zip codes. On Monday, August 2nd, winners of the lottery will be notified and will then have the opportunity to purchase up to two tickets and one parking pass for the special game.

MLB at Field of Dreams will be a national FOX Sports broadcast and will mark the first Major League game ever held in the State of Iowa. MLB built a ballpark adjacent to the movie site, with a potential capacity of up to 8,000 fans at the fan-favorite tourist destination. More information can be found here.

Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones and Amy Madigan. It was nominated for the Academy Award? for Best Picture in 1990 and was selected to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2017. The 1989 film tells the story of Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, a husband and father who is tending to his cornfield when he hears a mysterious voice intone, “If you build it, he will come.” According to the American Film Institute (AFI), those words are the 39th top film quote of all-time. The White Sox and the Yankees are the two favorite Clubs of Ray’s father, John Kinsella, at different points of his life.

MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO is proudly sponsored and supported by Chevrolet, Mastercard, T-Mobile, Mattress Firm, the National Corn Growers Association, John Deere, Musco Lighting, Budweiser and Doosan. MLB at Field of Dreams follows other recent special events that have taken groundbreaking Major League games to non-traditional domestic locales, including the Fort Bragg Game in 2016, MLB In Omaha Presented by GEICO at the NCAA’s Men’s College World Series in 2019 and the annual Little League Classic Presented by GEICO in Williamsport (2017-19). The events at Fort Bragg and in Omaha were the first Major League games ever in North Carolina and Nebraska, respectively.

Field of Dreams is now available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital.