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Last week brought yet another campaign reset for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a DailyMail.com poll found his support in the crucial early state of Iowa had crashed by nine percent. But stop to ask the actual men and women who will take part in the first contest to choose the Republican nominee next year and they will tell you to ignore the headlines and that there is a long, long way to go. 'I think that Trump is in the lead now, but Trump's gonna say something dumb and make a mistake, and people are gonna turn to Ron,'...

Ron DeSantis gripped a baseball, looked at his 5-year-old son, Mason, and lobbed him pitch after pitch. He grinned at Mason's hits and rolled his eyes when his own pitches came in too low or too high. “Bad pitch, buddy,” the Florida governor said after one errant throw. “That one was my fault.” DeSantis, who battles a reputation for being stiff and unfriendly, approached the field wearing a fleece campaign vest and long-sleeved shirt with his sleeves rolled up. The heat was starting to ease with sunset.

Team DeSantis is referring to the political persecution of @realDonaldTrump as “Trump’s jail drama.”Team DeSantis has shown their true colors… They are on the side of the Biden regime and the Uniparty.Absolutely disgusting! https://t.co/NBwE4m8Yi2— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) August 25, 2023Far away from Trump's jail drama, Ron DeSantis and his family head to Iowa's 'Field of Dreams' | AP News https://t.co/sXHgxumpHT— Erin Perrine (@ErinMPerrine) August 25, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was pressed over his appearance at Iowa’s Field of Dreams on Thursday as former President Donald Trump was being arrested by Fulton County, Georgia, officials. DeSantis, who is down by as many as 40 points against Trump, held an event at Iowa’s Field of Dreams at the same time Trump turned himself in to Fulton County officials. DeSantis played catch with his children and other children during the event. “What do you think about the split screen of you here in the field of dreams and former President Trump being arrested in Georgia?” CBS News’s...

A shocker. Ray Liotta, the terrific actor whose career breakout came in the Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas, has died. Deadline hears he died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the film Dangerous Waters. We will have more details when they become available. Liotta was 67 years old and leaves behind a daughter, Karsen. He was engaged to be married to Jacy Nittolo.

Major League Badebwll will build it, and the Yankees and White Sox will come. The clubs are headed to heaven — err, Iowa — in August of 2020, where they’ll face off at the location of the iconic baseball film “Field of Dreams”, MLB announced on Thursday morning. A temporary, 8,000 seat stadium will be built at the site of the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner, according to ESPN. The announcement was made with Yankees star outfielder Aaron Judge partaking in a scene from the movie, where he asks the famous line “is this heaven?” originally said by Ray Liotta’s...

W.P. Kinsella, the B.C.-based author of Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel that became the film Field of Dreams, has died at 81. His literary agency confirms the writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, B.C. The agency did not provide details about Kinsella's health. Kinsella suffered a head injury when he was in a car accident in 1997. Three years after the accident, he said he had no interest in writing fiction and was spending his days playing Scrabble on the internet.

An Iowa corn farmer (Taylor Lautner), hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a football field in his fields; he does, and the National Football League comes. Three minute video at:

Democratic presidential hopeful New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson looks to hit the ball during a stop at the "Field of Dreams" movie site

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa -- East Boynton Beach's Little League team is the best in America. Today, the boys from South Florida will attempt to conquer the world. Using home runs from four players and the wily pitching of Cody Emerson, East Boynton dismantled New England in the U.S. championship 9-2 Saturday. "I can't even believe it," said East Boynton second baseman Devon Travis, who was 3 for 3 and had one of those home runs. "It feels good to be No. 1." The win sets up today's World Series championship game with Japan.

When David Kelly's two children discovered baseball two years ago, he responded in a way few parents can. He built a regulation Little League field near his Issaquah home, open to blooper singles and shoestring catches from his son and daughter at any time. For more than a year, he leveled off and seeded an old horse pasture on his mother's 30-acre property. With little experience in baseball, he measured a diamond at a nearby park and laid out his own infield, complete with bases, dugouts and a fenced backstop. With ballfields in short supply in Issaquah, Kelly's children's and...