In this movie, Ray played by Kevin Costner, is a farmer who one days starts to hear voices in his cornfield. The voices say “if you build it they will come.” He does not know what to think of this but sees a vision of a baseball field and despite help from everyone, he decides to build the field and possibly ruin his financial stability. After he builds it there is no sign that anyone is coming. It takes a year, and the question that he has to plant over the field to be able to support his family. Then one day his daughter sees a man who is supposed to be Shoeless Joe Jackson who was a role model of his father.
Ray asks him to bring more players to the field and he does being back the old baseball team. He continues to hear voices and eventually lead him to another character Mann, an activist from the 1960s. Ultimately bringing Mann back to his home brings forward a ghost of his father when he played minor league baseball. He is able to play catch with his father and finds out more about his love for the game and Joe Jackson. Next the back is coming to foreclose on the property but there is a line of cars filled with people who want to see Joe Jackson play baseball. The field is a symbol for what the game stands for, even with the times that change over the years, the game of baseball has stayed the same. This is an important symbol for this film showing that what was once good can once be good again. This was built around the idea that everyone sold their farms in order to change from farming to a more industrial society. The symbols of the ghosts in this movie are like angels. They are able to symbolize what the pastime of the game meant and how it has changed over the years. Helping to show how the world has changed either for the better or the worse, and what baseball means to the world and how to get back to “America’s Pastime.”
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