If You Build It, They Will Come

from Field Of Dreams

by Phil Alden Robinson; novel by W.P Kinsella

Terry:     People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn into your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door, as innocent as children, longing for the past. "Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say, "It's only twenty dollars." And they'll pass over the money without even thinking about it.  For it is money they have and peace they lack.

And they'll walk off to the bleachers and sit in their shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. And find they have reserved seats somewhere along the baselines where they sat when they were children. And they'll watch the game and cheer their heroes.  And it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magical waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces. 

People will come, Ray.

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.                                                      

Oh people will come, Ray.  People will, most definitely, come.