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Diamonds in the Dust - Baseball

It’s been called America’s pastime. This Midwest tour takes the traveler on an amazing journey of everything baseball - from baseball's first night game to where women played ball during the War. Spectacular museums full of baseball history are also identified, as are the former sites of famous ballparks.

You can even go play ball in the middle of cornfield where Field of Dreams was filmed!

Print directions for all of these landmarks

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   Stop 1: Hank Aaron Statue at Carson Park Stadium

   Eau Claire, WI categories: Sports

   Carson Park Stadium is where Hank Aaron began his career for the minor league Eau Claire Bears in 1952. A statue of Hank Aaron outside the stadium commemorates this, and also that this is where he hit his first professional home run. <... READ MORE

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   Stop 2: Bob Feller Museum

   Van Meter, IA categories: Sports

   Opened in 1995, this small but vital town museum honors Van Meter's native son who set a ton of major league records while a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians from 1936 to 1956 and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Among the ar... READ MORE

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   Stop 3: Field of Dreams

   Dyersville, IA categories: American History

   "If you build it, they will come," the voice in the movie promised.
   The off-screen narration may have been referring to baseball legends, but today it's tourists who flock to play on the very site where Kevin Costner's 1989 movie w... READ MORE