
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 30, 1991                   TAG: 9103300151
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DYERSVILLE, IOWA                                LENGTH: Short

THEY BUILT IT, AND PEOPLE COME; `FIELD OF DREAMS' REALLY EXISTS

The "Field of Dreams" diamond officially opens for business next week, although the movie set draws people year around.

"We literally have had people coming into our office every day during the winter to ask how to get to the field," said Connie Trenkamp, executive director of the Dyersville Area Chamber of Commerce. "There have been people who've gone out to see the field in a blizzard."

But beginning Monday, visitors not only can see the field, they can take home a memento. Don Lansing will open a souvenir stand selling T-shirts, baseballs, bats and other "Field" memorabilia.

Lansing lives in the house occupied by the farmer played by Kevin Costner in the movie, filmed in the summer of 1988. Costner's character plows under the corn to create a baseball field so that legendary players can come back to life.

The following summer, when the movie was a box office hit, a neighbor farmer who owns most of left and center fields put the field back to corn, but the outfield was later restored.

by CNB