First Time Ever: Field of Dreams Home Tours

CBS 2 News reports that for the first time ever home tours are being offered inside the farmhouse of the famous motion picture drama "Field of Dreams"  in Dyersville, Iowa.

It appears that Chicago Cubs fever has reached a tipping point and at a feverish pitch, bringing baseball prominently back into the national spotlight. And not a moment too soon

The movie starring Kevin Costner is a heartwarming drama that  epitomizes the love affair many of us share with baseball.

According to CBS 2 and The Dubuque Telegraph Herald, the group Go the Distance Baseball announced Monday it would open the lower level of the house, which was used as a backdrop for much of the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner. Until now, the house has been closed to the public.

It seems to me a real blessing that with a long two weeks still to go before the nastiest presidential election on record, we have a  spectacular distraction with two major league baseball teams competing for the very first time in decades for a World Series Championship.

The fan frenzy is giving all Americans a pleasant and much needed distraction to the political strife we are facing in this nation.

If we could all treat each other as cordially as competing baseball fans from these two all-American cities do,  don't you think our nation would be in a better place today?

And that to me seems at least part of the message from the motion picture.

So let's play ball!

But be sure to wipe your feet before you go inside

(source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald, CBS 2 News)