![]() And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. But in ’58, the Dodgers moved away so we had to find other things to fight about. ![]() Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ray, narrating: “Mom died when I was 3, and I suppose dad did the best he could. He died a little when they lost the 1919 World Series, he died a lot the following summer when eight members of the team were accused of throwing that series.” Ray, narrating: “He settled in Chicago, where he quickly learned to live and die with the White Sox. The setup: It’s the beginning of the movie, and Ray is telling us a bit about his family background and the dynamic between him and his father. ![]() We’re looking just at the scenes and lines about Ray and his father, John, and I’ll fill in the plot-line details between those sections. This is a movie - an often absurd movie with plot twists that ask a lot of leeway from its viewers, admittedly - about a fractured father-son relationship and how it’s intertwined with baseball. But unlike “Major League” or “Bull Durham” or even “The Sandlot” or “A League of Their Own,” this isn’t a movie driven by witty one-liners. The absurdity of that makes me laugh every time. He starts ranting and raving and delivers this classic line: “You guys are guests in my corn!” The top contender for the funniest line, in my opinion, is near the end of the movie, when Shoeless Joe invites Terence Mann into the mystical place beyond the outfield, and Ray is mad that Joe told him he wasn’t invited. MORE: Watch 'ChangeUp,' a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Shoeless Joe asks, “Hey, is this heaven?” We’ve done lists of the best quotes from other baseball movies, so let’s start with this: The most iconic line from "Field of Dreams" is, to me, an easy choice. The 30th anniversary of the wide release of “Field of Dreams” is on Sunday, May 5.
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