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CTV News: ‘A feather in our cap’: ‘Field of Dreams’ recreated in Manitoba

September 12, 2024 — 

Rallying around Gardiner and his friends, the community built a 10-acre ballpark and Mother Nature let them live out their baseball dream.

“I think you could do this 999 years out of 1,000 and not get the weather that we had this year,” Gardiner said.

“We put down this grass seed, about 20 minutes after we got it down it just poured and we got two inches of rain that night, six inches of snow,” said Jace Guilford, who is studying agriculture at the University of Manitoba.

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