Chicago White Sox star shortstop Tim Anderson says baseball is “corny.” He’s on a mission to prove it can still be cool.
The Chicago White Sox are playing a game in an Iowa cornfield this week, and Tim Anderson, their star shortstop, has a confession to make: He has never seen “Field of Dreams,” the 1989 film that inspired the unusual venue. He has no plans to watch it, either.
“Field of Dreams” presents baseball with a sugary sheen of sentimentality. In the movie’s most famous monologue, James Earl Jones describes the game as an American institution that “reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.” It ends with Kevin Costner asking the ghost of his dead father to have a catch, inspiring tears from anyone in the audience for whom “baseball has marked the time.
That story doesn’t represent Anderson’s path to the sport he has made his career. He barely played baseball until his junior year of high school, growing up in Alabama with basketball as his first love. He approaches the game without any of the nostalgic reverence that has left baseball with a fan base that’s too old and too white to guarantee a sustainable future.
In other words, Anderson is exactly what baseball is looking for: He’s young, he’s Black, he’s supremely talented—and he’s on a mission to show the world that baseball can be cool. “You watch basketball, those guys are cool. You watch football, those guys are cool. They’re doing cool stuff, versus baseball, it’s corny,” Anderson said. “They don’t want you to show any emotions, so of course nobody is going to watch that. At that point, you’ve just got guys throwing and catching and hitting. Who would want to watch that?”
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