Comments on: Field of Dreams

By: Kristen Kasem

Kristen Kasem — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:19:18 +0000

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By: mark

mark — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:14:23 +0000

Mike, you still need to watch Grisham’s movie…Mickey (you can find it at Hollywood Video). Great show and if you love little league baseball and something tells me you do…you will love the show.

By: my

my — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:19:20 +0000

Sorry,
I am awake now and computer literate. John Grisham did build his first baseball field as a “field of dreams” of sorts. He lived in Oxford, MS (home of the Ole Miss Rebels, YEAH) , coached his son’s little league team and was always needing practice time but had no field. Why not solve that problem and build your own. Sometimes our biggest triumphs as coaches is to get the parents to see the game for what it was meant to be… FUN!!!

By: Steve Jr.

Steve Jr. — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:43:53 +0000

Steve,

I went to a private, interdenominational high school, and I had a different experience than you with regard to Christian parents and athletics. In my experience, the Christian parents were (and are) some of the worst in terms of pushing their kids too hard toward success in a particular sport, ragging them and officials during games, and, at my school, even attempting to fix grades and such for their kids and other star athletes. Sports ruled the day at my high school, often trumping academics and nearly always triumphing over spiritual formation. So I reject the thought that somehow Christians are any better than non-Christians at setting priorities and acting appropriately with regards to sports.

(anymore than we — Christians — are more moral than non-Christians in so many other areas)

By: Ed Harrell

Ed Harrell — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:26:11 +0000

Amen to the parents being out in center. That’s too close for some that I’ve experienced. The next county might be too close, though.

By: Joel G.Quile

Joel G.Quile — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:00:05 +0000

okay, so I added an extra “c” in scene and I left off a “2″ in my scripture reference. It should have read, Numbers 22:28.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:30:46 +0000

Joel,

Numbers 2:28 -

And his army was numbered at forty-one thousand five hundred.

???

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:22:41 +0000

I have never regretted our decision to put our kids in a private inter-denominational school. When every game is begun and ended with a prayer, it at least gives the participants, parents and coaches a chance to see the contest through the perspective of the One who is in charge of it all.

Peace.

By: Joel G.Quile

Joel G.Quile — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:19:48 +0000

Can a brother get a spell check? “scene”

By: Joel G.Quile

Joel G.Quile — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:17:12 +0000

The field is always the place of dreams.

The stands are where the nightmares are.

When I was in California doing youth ministry, I moonlighted as an ump for the Private Christian High School League. Put it this way regarding the parents, it was a scence right out of Numbers 2:28a!

Great post BroCo.

By: Steve Jr.

Steve Jr. — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:10:02 +0000

…uh, you trailed off there, my. Wakey wakey.

By: my

my — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:25:14 +0000

Mike,

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:39 +0000

I like what it DOES teach parents. The good parents don’t need the lessons. The parents who are trying to live through their kids need to see that it’s a really fun game when kids are allowed to play it. As a coach of almost 20 years . . . I’d be willing to give it a try.

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:25 +0000

I wonder if obnoxious aunts can sit closer…

By: Shoeless Joe Jackson

Shoeless Joe Jackson — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:11:22 +0000

Field of Dreams is not about a physical place where the bases and chalk lines are symmetrical and perfectly aligned. FOD is about the human heart longing for perfection in a non-perfect world, about remembering and clinging to the best in what a Father has to offer, and about relationships with people you would never know could possibly teach you or mentor you when their lives were so screwed up and disjointed. Parents are part of baseball - always will be. Moving bleachers beyond center field is only a band-aid for the problems that parents will create for their children in other venues. What we really need to do is teach parents how to act at ballgames so their children will learn and then they can teach their children, and so on, and so on.