{"id":842215,"date":"2026-09-09T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842215\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:11:20","slug":"world-baseball-league-to-host-field-of-dreams-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842215\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball League to host Field of Dreams Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DYERSVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The World Baseball League announced a three-day festival will take place at the Field of Dreams in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The three-day celebration will take place at the iconic field between October 15-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hall of famer Frank Thomas will be there to anchor the festival\u2019s broadcast coverage on his exclusive streaming platform Big Eye Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lineup for the weekend is as follows: <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 15: A family friendly event set to the backdrop of the original Field of Dreams movie site from 6:00-9:00 PM. Bring your families to have a catch, enjoy live music, and commune with legendary players and, of course, some ghost players.Friday, October 16: Ballpark doubleheader at the new MLB stadium, opened by a ceremonial first pitch from Thomas. First game starts at 4:00 PM.Saturday, October 17: Games begin at 11:00 AM at the original movie site, followed by the WBL Championship game, the presentation of the inaugural Mays Cup to the league\u2019s top team, and a live music performance at the stadium that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ticket information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/world-baseball-league-launches-inaugural-field-of-dreams-festival-to-bring-families-together-at-baseballs-most-iconic-diamond-302873139.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/world-baseball-league-launches-inaugural-field-of-dreams-festival-to-bring-families-together-at-baseballs-most-iconic-diamond-302873139.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DYERSVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The World Baseball League announced a three-day festival will take place at the Field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[356538,137063,157770,356539,363,356540,99,356537],"class_list":["post-842215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-big-eye-network","tag-bob-thomas","tag-field-of-dreams","tag-mays-cup","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-stadium","tag-sports","tag-world-baseball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842215","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=842215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}