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Thu May-13-10 07:15 PM
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Iowa's 'Field of Dreams' Site for Sale for $5.4M. |
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Thu May-13-10 07:23 PM
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1. I hear the Big 12 is going to buy it, because of the Big Ten trying to encroach on their |
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Edited on Thu May-13-10 07:23 PM by madinmaryland
league!
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Thu May-13-10 08:19 PM
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2. Here ya' go. 193 acres of primo Iowa landscape!! |
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Thu May-13-10 08:21 PM
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3. That third photo -- looks like a crowd in Oakland |
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Thu May-13-10 08:26 PM
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4. Pretty typical Iowans, Auggie. |
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I'll tell you what, though. A very cool place. Takes me about 90 minutes to get there.
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Thu May-13-10 08:53 PM
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5. Maybe U of Iowa could buy the site, |
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They might start a baseball tradition there.
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Thu May-13-10 09:26 PM
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6. Nah, El. I've given up on baseball at Iowa. |
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Methinks the winters and cold springs just kill us. The thing is....4 hours west in Lincoln. They do just fine. Crazy how 300 miles is a completely different climate.
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Thu May-13-10 09:27 PM
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Thought of you when I saw the news.
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Thu May-13-10 09:33 PM
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8. Much appreciated for the thread, elleng. |
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Took my father there a couple months before he died. Yeah, I know. Just a little maudlin. I said to him.."hey, dad. Do you want to have a catch?" Made his fucking day.
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Thu May-13-10 09:57 PM
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Fri May-14-10 09:50 AM
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12. I wanted to shoot a TV commercial there years ago |
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but the location fee was way beyond our budget. We scouted a zillion locations to find something similar and finally located a field in Lawrence, Kansas. I know -- wrong state. But it was a cool little field, directly between crops of soy bean and a strip club. Yeah, a strip club.
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Fri May-14-10 09:29 AM
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11. It's the number of people in Cleveland who still like LBJ |
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Fri May-14-10 12:17 AM
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10. I hope whoever buys it keeps it all going |
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Fri May-14-10 10:29 AM
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13. Maybe someone will buy it and... |
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tear it down to plant a corn field.
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