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Field of Dreams - Sold to the Highest Dreamer
This is a great article by Jacqueline Burt at CafeMom.com 'Field of Dreams' Won't Be Turned Into a Strip Mall Posted by Jacqueline Burt on October 31, 2011 at 6:54 PM If you sell it, they will come. That's how it worked out for Don and Becky Lansing of Dyersville, Iowa, anyway. The original owners of the cornfields featured in Field of Dreams just sold the site to Mike and Denise Stillman and their company, Go the Distance Baseball LLC. (Purchase price hasn't been disclosed, bu
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Renteria's agent, Barry Meister, said that Renteria will not...
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It’s late as I’m writing this so maybe I’ve just had a long day and I’m tired. But, man, it sure seems like Ross is bitter...
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Bochy said Lincecum threw off flat ground...
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Melvin Roman, who also represents Cardinals lefthander Jaime Garcia,...
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"It was pain-...
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But Ryan Howard always has known how to draw a crowd, and by the time he'd...
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The incident occurred at about 7 a.m., three hours before the Braves' first spring-training workout...
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The...
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