Graham - despite knowing he will be unable to return after stepping off the field - saves her. Ray and Mark scuffle, accidentally knocking Karin off the bleachers.
Mann agrees, saying that "people will come" to relive their childhood innocence. Karin insists that people will pay to watch the ballgames. The next morning, Mark returns, demanding that Ray sell the farm or the bank will foreclose on him. A game is played and Graham finally gets his turn at bat. Arriving at the farm, they see various all-star players have arrived, fielding a second team. At 14, after reading one of Mann's books, Ray stopped playing catch with his father, and they became estranged after he mocked John for having "a hero who was a criminal." Ray admits that his greatest regret is that his father died before they could reconcile. Ray later tells Mann that his father dreamed of being a baseball player then tried to make him pick up the sport instead. During the drive back to Iowa, Ray picks up young hitchhiker Archie Graham, who is looking for a baseball team to join. Ray finds himself in 1972, encountering an elderly Graham, who says he happily left baseball for a satisfying medical career. They drive to Minnesota, learning that Graham, who was a physician, had died years earlier. Mann also admits to hearing the voice and seeing the scoreboard. There Ray hears the voice urging him to "go the distance", seeing statistics on the scoreboard for Archie "Moonlight" Graham, who played in one game for the New York Giants in 1922 but never got to bat. Mann, who has become a disenchanted recluse, agrees to attend one game. When Ray and Annie have identical dreams about Ray and Mann attending a game at Fenway Park, Ray finds Mann in Boston. Ray deduces the voice was referring to Mann, who had named one of his characters "John Kinsella" and had once professed a childhood dream of playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ray and Annie attend a PTA meeting, where she argues against someone who is trying to ban books by Terence Mann, a controversial author and activist from the 1960s. The voice, meanwhile, urges Ray to "ease his pain." He warns the couple they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land. Annie's brother, Mark, can't see the players. Several months pass, and just as Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless Joe reappears, asking if others can play, and returns with the seven other Black Sox players. Believing in him, Annie lets him plow under part of their corn crop to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.Īs Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come." He sees a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (who in real-life died in 1951) standing in the middle. Troubled by his broken relationship with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan, he fears growing old without achieving anything.
Ray Kinsella lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their Dyersville, Iowa, corn farm.
For other people with similar names, see Terrence Mann (disambiguation).
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