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Bill Savage
@RogersParkMan
Chair of the Ire Department. Avatar from the Rathaus in Munich.
Aug 12, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
A thread: One theme in my Baseball in American Narratives class is the feedback loop between fictional and actual baseball. Films like The Natural, Major League, and especially Field of Dreams become part of the real-world major and minor league game. 1/7 Teams show film clips on the video boards, souvenirs reference fictional characters, the music from The Natural blares during a slugger's home-run trot. Some minor league teams in Iowa had bullpens sponsored by corn seed companies, and relievers emerged from the corn . . . 2/7