Dyersville, IA

Dyersville is located in eastern Iowa, 20 miles east of Dubuque, IA.

The movie Field of Dreams was filmed here in 1988 (it was released the following summer), and the baseball field created for the shooting remains the town's principal tourist attraction.

The field was damaged by vandals in January 2018, but four nearby minor league teams pitched in to fix up the damage the following April, with their ground crews and front office employees donating time, alongside members of the Iowa Wesleyan College baseball team, to restore the site.

A major league game, the Field of Dreams Game, was scheduled to be played here on August 13, 2020, in a purpose-built temporary ballpark next to the field, but it was postponed by a year until August 12, 2021 due to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic and its health and safety protocols. When it was played, it was the first major league game in the state of Iowa since the demise of the Keokuk Westerns in 1875. The experience was such as success that it was repeated in subsequent years.

Persons who were born here

• Thomas Jenk, United States national team player
• Tom Wegmann, minor league pitcher

Persons who died here

• Thomas Jenk, United States national team player

Educational institutions located here

• Beckman Catholic High School
• Xavier High School

Further Reading

• Tommy Birch: "If you rebuild it, they will come. Minor league teams join forces to help repair vandalized 'Field of Dreams'", USA Today Sports, April 21, 2018. [1]
• Anthony Castrovince: "Yanks, White Sox to play at ‘Field of Dreams’", mlb.com, August 8, 2019. [2]
• Adam Doster: "Field of Schemes", The Atlantic Monthly, April 2014, pp. 46-52.
• Brett H. Mandel: Is This Heaven?: The Magic of the Field of Dreams, Diamond Communications, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2002. ISBN 978-1888698411
• Matt Monagan: "You can play at 'Field of Dreams' in The Show: If you create it, they will play", mlb.com, August 9, 2021. [3]
• Jon Morosi: "Gaze at the grandeur! Iowa's Field of Dreams", mlb.com, May 14, 2021. [4]