"Field of Dreams" Movie Set in Dyersville, IA

Field of Dreams, released in 1989, is a movie that has inspired millions and became an Academy Award nominee for “Best Picture of the Year.” 

 The movie studio built the baseball diamond on two farms, a few miles outside Dyersville, IA. When production completed, the baseball diamond created for the movie was left behind. Most of the baseball field, including the diamond and the adjacent house, was on one farm owned by the Lansing family, but the left and center field were on an adjacent property owned by the Ameskamp family. The field was built on the two properties because the producers wanted the field in a location where sunset shots would be uninhibited.

Shoeless Joe was adapted into the 1989 film "Field of Dreams" by Phil Alden Robinson. The original working title of the film was "Shoeless Joe", like the book. The original title of the book was Dream Field, but the publisher renamed it, Shoeless Joe.

Shoeless Joe was written by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella. The book was written when Kinsella attended a writers workshop in Iowa, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella was living in, Iowa City.