Field of Dreams (1989): Ray's Father

The clip ray's father from Field of Dreams (1989) with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones

It's funny the way he described towns finding you a job so that you could play on their team. They haven't done that for years.
My dad did that for a while, but that was in the '20s.
What happened to your father?
He never made it as a ballplayer so he tried to get his son to make it for him.
By the time I was 10, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage.
So when I was 14, I started to refuse.
Can you believe that?
American boy refusing to have a catch with his father?
Why 14?
That's when I read The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann.
God!
I never played catch with him again.
That's the kind of crap people always lay on me.
It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with him.
I know.
Anyway, when I was 17 I packed my things, said something awful, and left.
After a while, I wanted to come home, but I didn't know how.
Made it back for the funeral, though.
What was the awful thing you said?
To your father?
I said I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.
Who was his hero?
Shoeless Joe Jackson.
You knew he wasn't a criminal. Then why did you say it?
I was 17.
The son of a bitch died before I could take it back.

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