KSMG Sports
October 31, 2011
Mike and Denise Stillman have a simple business plan: If they build more baseball fields, more people will come.
The Oak Lawn couple, longtime fans of the movie “Field of Dreams,” announced Sunday that their investment group has purchased the Iowa farm where the classic 1989 film was shot.
The Stillmans said they plan to preserve the iconic diamond while building about a dozen other fields and an indoor training dome on the 193-acre property, turning the land into a Midwestern hub for youth baseball and softball practice and tournaments.
“It’s the right time for this,” said Denise Stillman, 39, a health care business consultant. “We just know that it’s going to be a huge success.”
The Stillmans said about 65,000 people visit the site near Dyersville every year, playing catch or running the bases on the same field where the ghosts of past ballplayers emerged from the cornstalks to play ball in the movie, which starred Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones.
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