The inaugural Field of Dreams Game in 2021 was everything MLB could’ve hoped for.
The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox put on an electric display of baseball culminating in Tim Anderson’s walk-off home run to right field. A Hollywood ending for a contest straight off the movie screen.
We aren’t guaranteed to get similar fireworks in 2022 when the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds meet in the Iowa, but we do know they’ll both look spectacular when they emerge from the cornfields.
MLB released the uniforms each team will wear on August 12 and, just like last year’s threads, they absolutely crushed it.
Can't wait to see the @Cubs rocking these unis for #MLBatFieldofDreams! 🌽 pic.twitter.com/w5gGMDxVsd
— MLB (@MLB) August 8, 2022
Party like it's 1919❗️#MLBatFieldOfDreams 🌽 #RedsThreads pic.twitter.com/62HQCGYj5p
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) August 8, 2022
Those will do!
This is a perfect example of a retro look brought into modern times. The Cincy uniforms, in particular, has large place in baseball lore. Those were the jerseys they wore in 1919 when they “won” the World Series against a White Sox team later found to have been paid to throw the championship.
That Sox team featured Shoeless Joe Jackson—and his story would become a key part of the plot to the film Field of Dreams.
Now, of course, we’ll probably see a handful of commercials promoting betting on baseball throughout the Field of Dreams Game. Times have certainly changed.
Whether or not you should trust your money with two teams who are each about 20 games under .500 is an entirely different question.
At least we know they’ll look great.
