{"id":805360,"date":"2026-08-07T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:52:12","slug":"field-of-dreams-to-host-third-mlb-game-with-new-permanent-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805360\/","title":{"rendered":"Field of Dreams to host third MLB game with new permanent ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DYERSVILLE, Iowa \u2014 Major League Baseball will return to Iowa next Thursday when the Minnesota Twins take on the Philadelphia Phillies at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, marking the third MLB game ever played at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The first two games were played at a temporary stadium, which was later torn down to make way for a new permanent ballpark. The upgraded site seats up to 8,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dyersville officials hope the new facility will bring Major League Baseball back to the site every summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jeremiah Yolkut, MLB\u2019s senior vice president of global events, said the new venue strikes a balance between tradition and modern convenience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it now is sort of the perfect blend of the nostalgia of the movie and being on a farm watching a baseball game but having some of the creature comforts that I think people seek out when they\u2019re coming to big events,\u201d Yolkut said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the players who now have permanent locker room space, the media who will have a much more complete build-out in the press box, or the fans that are coming to the site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DYERSVILLE, Iowa \u2014 Major League Baseball will return to Iowa next Thursday when the Minnesota Twins take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[157771,157770,13014,6429,363,341944,2085,8894,99,19278],"class_list":["post-805360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dyersville","tag-field-of-dreams","tag-iowa","tag-minnesota","tag-mlb","tag-permanent-ballpark","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillies","tag-sports","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}