Update: 9/13/2024

James Earl Jones and Why We Love Baseball - In Case You Missed "Out on Old 10."

A Trip Down “Old 10” in Yell County - In Case You Missed It.

“Old 10” has many stories to tell. One of those is a lost story about a Hall of Famer from out on old 10.

In case you missed the trip out on “Old 10” and the lost story of a Hall of Famer born there, here is the link.

Why We Love Baseball

I had to watch Field of Dreams again this week and one of my YouTube TV channels must have known that.

I have seen “Field of Dreams” a dozen times, not counting the 100 times I have Googled James Earl Jones’ famous lines or video of Burt Lancaster’s poignant portrayal of “Moonlight” Graham as old Doc Graham in Minnesota.

The late Ray Liotta, the late James Earl Jones, and the late Bert Lancaster with Kevin Costner from Field of Dreams.

Folks who are paid to tell us if we should like movies are lukewarm about the film from the summer of 1989. These experts used words like “sappy,” “overacted,” and “cliched” in their reviews. They commented on the awkward action scenes and reminded us that in the movie the late Ray Liotta batted right-handed playing the lefty Shoeless Joe Jackson. Still, to those of us afflicted with the nostalgic romance of those baseball days, the movie was perfect. To tinker with James Earl Jones’ famous lines a little, “The memories were so thick we had to wipe them away from our faces.” After all, baseball was our grandpa’s game and part of our heritage.

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