:02:02
...were accused of throwing that Series.
:02:04
He played some in the minors,
but nothing came ofit.
:02:08
Moved to Brooklyn in '35...
:02:10
...married Mom in '38...
:02:12
...was already an old man
at the naval yards...
:02:15
...when I was born in 1952.
:02:18
My name's Ray Kinsella.
:02:20
Mom died when I was 3,
and I suppose Dad did the best he could.
:02:25
Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed
to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig...
:02:30
...and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson.
:02:33
Dad was a Yankees fan then,
so I rooted for Brooklyn.
:02:37
Butin '58, the Dodgers moved away,
so we had to find other reasons to fight.
:02:42
We did.
:02:44
When it came time to go to college...
:02:46
...l picked the farthest
from home I could find.
:02:50
This drove him up the wall,
which, I suppose, was the point.
:02:54
Officially my major was English,
but really it was the '60s.
:02:59
I marched, I smoked some grass...
:03:01
...l tried to like sitar music,
and I metAnnie.
:03:05
The only thing we had in common
was thatshe came from lowa...
:03:09
...and I'd once heard of lowa.
:03:12
After graduation,
we moved to the Midwest...
:03:14
...and stayed with her family
as long as we could.
:03:17
Almost a full afternoon.
:03:20
Annie and I got married in June of '74.
:03:23
Dad died that fall.
:03:26
A few years later, Karin was born.
:03:28
She smelled weird,
but we loved her anyway.
:03:31
Then Annie got the crazy idea
thatshe could talk me into buying a farm.
:03:36
I'm 36 years old, I love my family,
I love baseball...
:03:40
...and I'm about to become a farmer.
:03:43
But until I heard the voice...
:03:46
...l'd never done a crazy thing
in my whole life.