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Tickets to Minor League Baseball game at Field of Dreams in August go on sale Saturday

Tommy Birch
Des Moines Register

This year’s Minor League Baseball game at the “Field of Dreams” movie site will serve as an opening act for the big-league game between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds.

The August 9 MiLB game, which features the Cedar Rapids Kernels and Quad Cities River Bandits playing on the big-league field two days before the MLB game in Dyersville, is expected to be a big ticket in and of itself.  

Residents of Iowa and Illinois will be the first to get a shot at them.

MLB announced that tickets for the Kernels-River Bandits game will go on sale to fans with Iowa and Illinois ZIP codes at 10 a.m. Saturday. Tickets will then be available to the general public starting at 10 a.m. on July 8.

Fans can purchase tickets by visiting https://www.milb.com/fans/field-of-dreams/tickets. This will be the first minor-league game played at the park.

The Cedar Rapids Kernels and Quad Cities River Bandits will play a MiLB game in Dyersville on Aug. 9.

The Kernels, a minor-league affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, and the River Bandits, an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, will play in the specially constructed stadium located near the iconic diamond from the 1989 movie on Aug. 9. Ticket prices are $85 for tip-up seats and $65 for bench-style seating. Fans can buy up to eight tickets and two complimentary parking passes per order.

PREVIOUSLY:River Bandits and Kernels to play in Dyersville 

The Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees battled in an epic showdown on a picture-perfect Dyersville evening last August. The night began with a timeless tribute from Kevin Costner, the actor who played the Iowa farmer who plowed over his corn and built a baseball field for Shoelss Joe Jackson and other members of the banished White Sox. 

Costner emerged from the corn last August and was followed by members of the Yankees and White Sox. The teams treated fans to an entertaining, nationally televised game that ended with Chicago's Tim Anderson blasting a walk-off homer into the corn.

The lead-up to the event drew so much interest that commissioner Rob Manfred announced prior to the first pitch that MLB would be back for another game in 2022. 

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This year's matchup, scheduled for August 11, features the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds, the franchise that won the 1919 World Series against Shoeless Joe's White Sox. Tickets to that game were made available only to winners of a lottery, and buyers had to have an Iowa ZIP code. 

During the 2021 game, the White Sox and Yankees donned throwback jerseys that replicated their 1919 uniforms. The River Bandits and Kernels plan to do the same this year. The River Bandits will become the Davenport Blue Sox, while the Kernels will become the Cedar Rapids Bunnies.

Tommy Birch, the Register's sports enterprise and features reporter, has been working at the newspaper since 2008. He's the 2018 and 2020 Iowa Sportswriter of the Year. Reach him at tbirch@dmreg.com or 515-284-8468. Follow him on Twitter @TommyBirch.