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2023 Fictitious Contributor Final Round

Ray Kinsella

Ray Kinsella
  • Contest: 2023 Fictitious Contributor Final Round
  • TV Show/Movie Appeared: Field of Dreams (1989)
  • Actor/Actress: Kevin Costner
  • Why you should vote:: He is the main character in one of the most inspirational baseball movies of all time.
  • Why you should not vote:: How Major League Baseball has evolved since the movie, does not help his cause.
  • Somehow, with the strike of 1994, and the constant PED issues that plagued the game of Baseball, Field of Dreams just doesn’t have the same impact anymore. Our heroes of the diamond have taken a pounding, and you have to wonder if our cynical nature could take a film like this anymore.

    Perhaps that doesn’t matter, as in 1989 you could make this film and there are many who consider this one of the greatest baseball films ever made. Kevin Costner’s earnest portrayal of Iowa farmer Roy Kinsella touched hearts and Americans everywhere looked at their fathers and sons and remembered how the American pastime altered their lives.

    We wonder aloud however if we started this Hall of Fame in 1992 that the character of Ray Kinsella would be an early ballot entry. With the way we think of the game now….is it still? We are looking forward to finding out.


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