"Field of Dreams" is about believing in something bigger than yourself, which may be why this story about a farmer's supernatural cornfield pairs so well with the American pastime of baseball. While Ray Kinsella's (Kevin Costner) experience with the spirits of Major League Baseball players is fiction, "Field of Dreams" is inspired by untold true events connected to a dark time in baseball's history.

After Ray builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, he's introduced to the ghost of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson ( Ray Liotta, who died in 2022 ). Jackson was a real baseball player who played for the Chicago White Sox from 1916 to 1920. That's when his career ended, after being accused of helping the White Sox throw the 1919 World series in a gambling scheme. According to the Chicago History Muse

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