Field of Dreams (1989): Researching Terence Mann

The clip researching terence mann from Field of Dreams (1989) with Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan

It's incredible. By the early '70s, the guy decides people have become either too extremist or too apathetic to listen.
So he stops writing books, he starts writing poetry about whales and then he starts fooling around with a home computer.
Know what he does now?
He writes software for interactive children's videos.
They teach kids how to resolve their conflicts peacefully.
God, what an amazing guy.
What's that got to do with baseball?
In the April 1962 issue of Jet magazine there's a story called "This Is Not A Kite."
It's not his best work, but the story's hero is named John Kinsella.
My father.
Wow.
What do you mean, "Wow"?
What should I say? Big wow! What's it got to do with baseball?
You drive.
Okay, the last interview he ever gave was in 1973.
Guess what it's about.
Some kind of team sport.
The guy was a baseball fanatic. Listen to this:
"As a child, my earliest recurring dream was to play at Ebbets Field...
"...with Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
"Of course, it never happened. The Dodgers left Brooklyn.
"They tore down Ebbets Field, but even now, I still dream that dream."
That's sad.
The man wrote the best books of his generation.
He was a pioneer in the civil rights and the antiwar movement.

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