Ray. People will come, Ray. Theyll come to Iowa for reasons they cant even fathom. Theyll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why theyre doing it. Theyll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we wont mind if you look around, youll say, Its only $20 per person. Theyll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And theyll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. Theyll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And theyll watch the game and itll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick theyll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: its a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh...people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. ~~Terence Mann, (James Earl Jones, Field of Dreams)
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:57:39 +0000
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