[buckalfa]

Having grown up in the 1950's as a youthful fan of the boys of summer, I find this kind of neat in a romantic Americana sort of way. Then again there is a good chance MLB will bastardize what should be an otherwise fun and nostalgic event.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I hope they don’t destroy it with the build-up and tear-down of the ballpark.

[Rebelbase]

If they don’t let the corn grow up to the edge of the outfield they’ll ruin the nostalgia.

[skams19]

They will probably decide to have an LBGTQ Pride Night.

[Ezekiel]

Makes sense. 2020 is the year of vision.

Exodus 3

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush [left field], and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

The Left field player is Why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_on_First%3F

Baseball’s holy ground

Set aside the cares of the world for a few minutes, and imagine yourself in the “friendly confines” of a major league baseball stadium.

The smell of freshly cut grass, the crack of a bat, the roar of the crowd, and the taste of a ball park hot dog can chase away a lot of tension, and make you believe (at least for a while) the words intoned by James Earl Jones in the movie “Field of Dreams”:

“it reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again”.

http://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2014/03/baseballs-holy-ground.html

And

Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American star outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 1900s. He is remembered for his performance on the field and for his alleged association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson

[Bullish]

Iconic? Hardly.

That was by far the worst and the dumbest so-called ‘baseball’ movie of all time.

[rfp1234]

“Badebwll”? Sounds like a village in Wales.

[Paladin2]

Cool, my FoD T-Shirt is about to hit the rag pile.

[montag813]

Great stuff. I have rediscovered baseball since the NFL embraced America-haters. There was ONE kneeler, a white moron on the A’s 2 years ago, and he flamed out. No one else.