The Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins played the MLB Field of Dreams Game on Thursday night in Dyersville, Iowa. And ahead of the game, ESPN New York radio host Don La Greca took the time to voice “all kinds of problems” he has with the 1989 movie that was filmed at the site, Field of Dreams.
La Greca went off about the “historical accuracy of baseball” regarding a film that features ghosts emerging from Kevin Costner’s cornfield to play the sport.
He began by calling Field of Dreams a “good movie” before sounding borderline disgusted with it for the next two minutes.
.@DonLagreca likes Field of Dreams as a movie, but he has some issues with it @alanhahn l @ESPNNewYorkpic.twitter.com/rrjPg9nUDM
— Don, Hahn & Rosenberg (@DHRonESPN) August 13, 2026
“Good movie; I have all kinds of problems with it, though- Field of Dreams,” La Greca told Don, Hahn & Rosenberg co-host Alan Hahn.
“It’s a movie about Shoeless Joe Jackson… Shoeless Joe Jackson batted left-handed!” La Greca explained. “They couldn’t get Ray Liotta to bat left-handed! Alright; get another actor or reverse the film! He’s not right-handed! I’m sorry! I can’t enjoy a movie when you’ve got that glaring of an error!”
“But it’s a movie that is going into the historical accuracy of baseball,” La Greca continued. “That they actually found someone who got [one game in the major leagues]; never got an at-bat. Moonlight Graham. Based on a character in the movie about him. You can go to The Baseball Encyclopedia and see; he played in one game and didn’t get an at-bat. They didn’t have the right year that he died. He died in 1969, I believe, and they said he died in 1972 because they wanted to put The Godfather on the marquee. I’m just saying, can we just get the year he died right? Since you went that far for the accuracy, have him die the right year!”
“Are you saying that you know this for certain?” Hahn asked.
“No, I don’t know,” La Greca said. “I’m just assuming that; they figured that when he was walking in downtown that the movie marquee made more sense. Like, The Godfather would resonate more, and that was in ’72.
“But he didn’t die in 1972. You can easily look it up! You could have made up the character!” La Greca explained with frustration in his closing comments. “You didn’t! You went to The Baseball Encyclopedia! You found the guy! Shoeless Joe Jackson was not right-handed!”
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