Editing Field of Dreams (section)

==Plot==
Ray Kinsella lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their corn farm in [[Dyersville, Iowa]]. Troubled by his broken relationship with his late father John, a devoted [[baseball]] fan, Ray fears growing old without ever having done anything to achieve his dreams.

While walking through his cornfield one evening, Ray hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come." and sees a vision of a [[baseball diamond]] in the cornfield and the ghost of [[Shoeless Joe Jackson|"Shoeless" Joe Jackson]] standing in the middle. Annie agrees to uproot part of their field to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.

As Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 [[Black Sox Scandal]]. As Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless Joe reappears one evening. Joe asks Ray if he can come back. Ray replies in the affirmative. The next day, Joe returns with the seven other Black Sox players. Annie's brother, Mark, cannot see the players. He warns the couple they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land. The voice, meanwhile, urges Ray to "ease his pain."

Ray and Annie attend a [[Parent–teacher association|PTA]] meeting, where she argues against someone who is trying to ban books by Terence Mann, a controversial author and activist from the 1960s. Ray deduces the voice was referring to Mann, who had named one of his characters "John Kinsella" and had once professed a childhood dream of playing for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]]. That night, after Ray and Annie have identical dreams about Ray and Mann attending a game together at [[Fenway Park]], Ray drives to [[Boston]] to find him. Mann, who has become a disenchanted recluse, agrees to attend one game. There Ray hears the voice urging him to "go the distance", seeing statistics on the scoreboard for [[Moonlight Graham|Archie "Moonlight" Graham]], who played in one 1922 game for the [[New York Giants (MLB)|New York Giants]] but never got to bat. Mann also admits to hearing the voice and seeing the scoreboard.

The pair drive to [[Chisholm, Minnesota]], and learn that Graham, who became a physician, had died years earlier. Ray researches Graham, whose obituary said he was a beloved and charitable doctor, but makes no mention of his baseball career. Ray suddenly finds himself in 1972, and meets an elderly Graham, who feels his calling in life is medicine, not sports, and declines to visit Ray's baseball field. During the drive back to Iowa, Ray and Mann pick up a young hitchhiker named Archie Graham, who is looking for a baseball team to join. Ray later tells Mann that his father dreamed of being a baseball player, then tried to make him pick up the sport instead. At 14, after reading one of Mann's books, Ray stopped playing catch with his father, and they became estranged after he mocked John, saying "[he] could never respect a man whose hero [Joe] was a criminal." Ray admits that his greatest regret is that his father died before they could reconcile. As they continue the drive, Mann and Ray acknowledge the building of the field, and bringing Joe back, is Ray's penance for the estrangement with his father. Arriving at the farm, they see various all-star players of the 1920s have arrived, fielding a second team. A game is played and Graham finally gets his turn at bat.

The next day, Mark returns, demanding that Ray sell the farm or the bank will foreclose on him. Karin insists that people will pay to watch the ballgames. Mann agrees, saying that "people will come" to relive their childhood innocence. Ray and Mark scuffle, accidentally knocking Karin off the bleachers. Graham{{snd}}despite knowing he will be unable to return after stepping off the field{{snd}}saves her from choking on a hot dog. Having become old Doc Graham again, he reassures Ray that he has no regrets. As he heads back toward the cornfield, he is commended by the other players, and before he can disappear into the corn, Shoeless Joe calls out, "Hey, rookie!", Graham stops and turns to Shoeless Joe, who tells him, "You were good." Doc Graham's eyes shine with tears before he smiles, turns back toward the corn, and disappears into it. Suddenly, Mark too can see the players and urges Ray to keep the farm after all.

Shoeless Joe invites Mann to enter the corn, and Mann disappears into it. Ray is angry at not being invited but Joe rebukes him, glancing towards the catcher at [[home plate]], saying, "If you build it, ''he'' will come." When the catcher removes his mask, Ray recognizes him as his father, John, as a young man. Ray and Annie then understand that "ease his pain" and "go the distance" both refer to his father.

Ray introduces John to his wife and daughter, without acknowledging him as his father. Later, as evening falls, John says goodnight to Ray and they shake hands. As John is walking towards the cornfield, Ray asks him if he wants to play catch. John gladly accepts as hundreds of cars are seen approaching the field, fulfilling the prophecy that people will come to the field to watch baseball.