BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Gerald Watkins watched Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and other New York Yankees wade through stalks of corn onto an Iowa field in 2021, near the filming site for the 1989 baseball movie "Field of Dreams."
Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball with a pitch.
"The Field of Dreams is really cool," Watkins, 68, said, "but we have a real Field of Dreams here. This is a place where Willie Mays, among others, was standing in the outfield dreami...
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