If I only had the cash.
As a baseball fan, I have a soft spot for Field of Dreams.
From Thon Line.com:
After 22 years of watching a movie site transform their farm into a robust tourist attraction, Don and Becky Lansing are heading into retirement.
The owners of the Field of Dreams movie site are selling the property, which has been in the Lansing family since 1906, according to a press release issued Thursday.
The listing encompasses the movie site, which includes the baseball diamond, a two-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath house, six outbuildings and a parcel of land totaling 193 acres. Additional acreage also might be available.
The Lansings are asking for $5.4 million for the property, according to Ken Sanders, a Milwaukee real estate consultant assisting the family with the sale.
"Donnie and I are ready to head to the locker room, be spectators and watch the future of the Field of Dreams," Becky Lansing said. "We're ready for the next chapter of our lives. It was time to retire.
"It's not a decision that comes lightly."
The movie "Field of Dreams" was filmed on the Lansing farm during the summer of 1988. The film, starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster, was released in April 1989 and nominated for Best
Picture and Best Score at the 1989 Academy Awards.
The field was turned into a movie site and attracts an average of 65,000 visitors each year.
Sanders, a family friend of the Lansings and a former pitcher for eight different Major League Baseball teams between 1964 and 1976, has been "inundated" with phone calls from prospective buyers.
"I'm certainly getting a lot of inquiries," said Sanders, who led the American League in saves with 31 for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971.
"By going public with the sale of the property, that opens the door to anyone and everyone.
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Via Thon Line.com
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