Alyssa Bergamini & Field of Dreams TV Show Announced
“If you build it they will come” and we came!
The Moonlight Graham Show is still riding high from the Field of Dreams game. We aren’t sure if it is the apple pie hotdog or the pure magic of a major league baseball game carved out of a cornfield, but we can’t stop smiling. This week, Tim sits down with NBC Chicago’s Alyssa Bergamini who covers the Chicago White Sox. We wanted to get an insider’s look at how the players felt about the field, Iowa, and the amazing finish to the game itself. Bergamini coming on the podcast is a little bit of a family reunion as she is Tim’s sorority sister-in-law and an adopted Iowan.
I didn’t know I was going to be so emotional
Alyssa Bergamini grew up in Chicago but attended the University of Iowa to study broadcast journalism. In her time in Iowa, she realized what we all know to be true, Iowans are the best. She fell in love with the state before returning to Chicago for her job in marketing for the White Sox. Over the last several years she has worked in and around the White Sox organization and has developed a unique perspective. After originally having potential offers to work the event for Fox Sports fall through, Alyssa got a ticket offer at the last minute and was able to attend just as a fan. Alyssa Bergamini shares the ins and outs of the experience from the build-up to the execution.
Also in this episode is an update on the Quest for Costner and the upcoming Field of Dreams streaming TV series. The Moonlight Graham Show has the Field of Dreams covered from just about every perspective.
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As the Des Moines area gears up to host the production of the new Field of Dreams show, Tim and Neil discuss the next era of the film's saga.
We are still riding high from the Field of Dreams game. This week, Tim sits down with NBC Chicago’s Alyssa Bergamini who covers the Chicago White Sox to get an insider’s look at how the players felt about the field, Iowa, and the amazing finish to the game itself. Also in this episode is an update on the Quest for Costner and the upcoming Field of Dreams streaming TV series.
This week the dream comes true. As the White Sox and Yankees pack up and head for home, Tim and Neil get to reflect on one of the most amazing sporting events to ever take place in Iowa. The Field of Dreams movie site went through a roughly 2-year transformation to become the home of a major league-caliber baseball field. Tim and Neil spent the day with 8,000 of their new best friends taking in the sights, sounds, and tastes of something Ray Kinsella could’ve only dreamed of.
It is Field of Dreams week here in Iowa. Major League Baseball is following in the footsteps of the ghost players and will be walking out onto a diamond carved out of a corn field in eastern Iowa. Before the Yankees and White Sox take the field, the Moonlight Graham Show sits down with Moonlighter Tommy Birch and talks about the long road to bring the big league to Dyersville and the Barstool Barn Burner game. This is a huge week in baseball as all eyes turn to Iowa and 30 years after the movie came out, we are ready.
Everyone knows about his short-lived Major League career, but Archibald Graham has so much more to his story. In this episode, Tim and resident historian Tom take a deep dive into Archibald Moonlight Graham’s legacy. We know of Moonlight Graham because author W.P. Kinsella came across a random entry in a baseball encyclopedia, but the good people of Chisolm, MN celebrate Doc ‘Moonlight’ Graham Days each year to celebrate so much more than baseball.
This week’s Moonlighter is the Director of Operations at the Field of Dreams Movie Site. In addition to the rest of his duties, Roman Weinberg has played a critical role in one of the biggest sporting events in Iowa history that hasn’t even happened yet. The New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox are supposed to face off on a field carved out of an Iowa cornfield, just like Ray Kinsella built. However, with COVID-19 and the entire MLB season up in the air, even if they build it, they might not come.
In this interview, Tim and Dwier explore the behind-the-scenes notes and insights that make Field of Dreams so special. Everything from working with the cast, the cast and crew bowling team, filming in Dyersville, and nearly 30 years of hindsight on one of the greatest sports movies of all time.
This year, Tim and Neil were not able to attend the big game in Dyersville, so they had to bring in a reliever. Who better to serve as the Moonlight Graham Show’s first unofficial correspondent than one of Iowa’s favorite role players, Moonlighter Nick Collison?