:41:02
-God, what an amazing guy.
-What's that got to do with baseball?
:41:06
In the April 1962 issue of Jet magazine...
:41:08
...there's a story called
"This ls Not A Kite."
:41:12
It's not his best work, but the story's hero
is named John Kinsella.
:41:18
-My father.
-Wow.
:41:20
What do you mean, "Wow"?
:41:21
What should I say? Big wow!
What's it got to do with baseball?
:41:26
You drive.
:41:33
Okay, the last interview
he ever gave was in 1973.
:41:36
-Guess what it's about.
-Some kind of team sport.
:41:39
The guy was a baseball fanatic.
Listen to this:
:41:42
"As a child, my earliest recurring dream
was to play at Ebbets Field...
:41:46
"...with Jackie Robinson
and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
:41:48
"Of course, it never happened.
The Dodgers left Brooklyn.
:41:51
"They tore down Ebbets Field,
but even now, I still dream that dream."
:41:56
That's sad.
:41:59
The man wrote the best books
of his generation.
:42:03
He was a pioneer in the civil rights
and the antiwar movement.
:42:07
He made the cover of Newsweek.
He knew everybody. He did everything.
:42:11
He helped shape his time.
The guy hung out with The Beatles.
:42:15
It wasn't enough.
What he missed was baseball.
:42:18
-Oh, my God!
-What?
:42:20
As a small boy,
he had a bat named Rosebud.
:42:23
-Give me that.
-Sorry.
:42:26
The guy hasn't been
to a baseball game since 1958.
:42:30
So, to ease his pain, you're supposed
to take him to a ball game.
:42:34
Yes.
:42:36
Ray, this is nuttier
than building the baseball field.
:42:39
No, it's not. It's pretty weird,
but building the field was weirder.
:42:43
Five, ten percent weirder.
:42:44
I'm sorry, I'm going to have
to nip this one in the bud.
:42:47
We're having moderate to heavy
financial difficulties here.
:42:51
You can't take off for Boston
while we're going broke in lowa.
:42:54
This is really new territory for us...
:42:56
...but we're dealing
with primal forces of nature.
:42:59
When primal forces of nature tell you
to do something...