Field of Dreams Podcast

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Field of Dreams is a long-form baseball podcast where teams from across eras meet in a single-elimination tournament. Each week, one series is brought to life through history, narration, and reflection — preserving the memory of the game and the legends who played it. Produced by Legends Channel legendschanel3@gmail.com fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  1. 19h ago

    Episode 23 - Screwballs And Florida Domes

    Seventy-five years of baseball history collide in this matchup between the 1938 New York Giants and the 2013 Tampa Bay Rays. The Giants arrive as a golden-age club built around two era-defining talents: Mel Ott, in the prime of one of the great offensive seasons of his career, and Carl Hubbell, the legendary screwball artist known as “King Carl,” still capable of baffling hitters even past his absolute peak. Under manager Bill Terry, this is a lineup with real depth around its two stars, backed by a professional, battle-tested pitching staff. The Rays counter with a completely different identity — a team built on modern analytics, situational hitting, and one of the deepest pitching rotations in this entire tournament. Led by reigning Cy Young winner David Price and anchored by a lineup with no single overwhelming bat but eight professional hitters up and down the order, Tampa Bay represents everything the small-market, data-driven era of baseball stands for. Collective brilliance against individual greatness. Modern defense against a golden-age screwball. Home field belongs to Tampa Bay, but nothing about this series figures to be easy for either side. Join us for the full historical deep dive, game-by-game narration, and the Diamond Ledger update as this best-of-seven battle unfolds. Questions, comments, or a matchup you want to see covered? Reach out at legendschannel3@gmail.com, and find the companion publication at fieldofdreams2025.substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  2. 6d ago

    Episode 22 — The Centennial

    One hundred series. Five hundred and sixty games. Fifty-one walk-offs, two comebacks from the brink of elimination, one no-hitter that still ended in defeat, and an eighteen-inning marathon that tested the limits of two rosters and everyone watching. The Play-In Round of Field of Dreams has been running since Episode 1, and after one hundred series of all-eras Major League Baseball history colliding in a knockout tournament, it is time to stop and take stock of what has been built. Episode 22 is The Centennial — a special commemorative broadcast covering everything that has happened across the first one hundred series of competition. The New York Yankees lead all franchises with ten wins. The Pittsburgh Pirates have been the most consistent challenger. The Colorado Rockies have been the tournament’s hardest luck story. The 1971 San Diego Padres — a hundred-loss team in real life — pulled off one of the great upsets in tournament history. Eddie Cicotte threw a no-hitter and still went home a loser. Babe Ruth delivered a walk-off in a seven-game classic that stands as the best series the tournament has ever produced. This episode also marks the official launch of the Diamond Ledger — the living record of the greatest individual hitting and pitching performances in Field of Dreams history, updated every hundred series as the competition continues. No new series are narrated in this episode. This one belongs entirely to the first hundred. The tournament resumes in Episode 23, with the next stop at Series 200. Field of Dreams. All eras. One champion. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  3. Jun 26

    Episode 21 - The Enigma Of Bonds

    Episode 21 of the Field of Dreams Podcast brings us Series 96 — and one of the most compelling matchups this tournament has produced. The 1999 San Francisco Giants, built around the most polarizing player in the history of the game, step into the bracket against the 1980 Pittsburgh Pirates — the We Are Family club, one year removed from their World Series championship, still carrying the glow of one of the most beloved titles in baseball memory. At the center of it all is Barry Bonds. Three MVP awards. A left fielder of uncommon grace. Numbers that defy easy interpretation and a legacy that invites argument the moment his name is spoken. In 1999 he is thirty-four years old, playing through injury, and still one of the most dangerous hitters on the planet. What does he mean? What do his numbers tell us? And what happens when he steps into October against a Pittsburgh team that believes in togetherness as a competitive weapon? Surrounding Bonds, Dusty Baker has assembled a dangerous Giants club — Jeff Kent, Ellis Burks, J.T. Snow, Russ Ortiz, and a bullpen anchored by closer Robb Nen. For Pittsburgh, Chuck Tanner sends out Jim Bibby, Willie Stargell, Mike Easler, Dave Parker, and the inimitable Kent Tekulve in a series that pits two very different baseball philosophies against one another across five games and two cities. This is Episode 21 of the Field of Dreams Podcast — fully narrated for the first time by our new voice, carrying this tournament forward with the same reverence the story deserves. For questions, feedback, or to follow the tournament, reach out at legendschannel3@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  4. Jun 19

    EPISODE 20 — The Greatest Of All Yankee Clubs

    Welcome back to the Field of Dreams Podcast — the show where history doesn’t stay in the record books. Every week, we pull the greatest teams from every era of Major League Baseball and throw them into a single-elimination tournament that doesn’t care about decades, dynasties, or decades of separation. This is baseball’s ultimate what-if, simulated pitch by pitch, game by game, in Out of the Park Baseball. This week, Series Ninety-One. And this week, the matchup history has been waiting for. The 1998 New York Yankees — one hundred and fourteen wins, one of the most dominant teams ever assembled in the American League, a roster loaded from top to bottom with players who knew exactly what they were and never let you forget it — step into the bracket against the 1912 Cleveland Naps, a Dead Ball era club anchored by two of the purest talents the game has ever produced in Nap Lajoie and Shoeless Joe Jackson. Old world meets new. Wool uniforms meet pinstripes. And somewhere in between, we find out what baseball is really made of. Game by game. No shortcuts, no summaries — just the game, the way it was played. Questions, thoughts, or just want to talk baseball? Reach out at legendschannel3@gmail.com or find us on Substack at https://substack.com/@legendschannel1?utm_source=user-menu This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  5. Jun 5

    Episode 19 - Shoeless Joe And The Gentleman From Philadelphia

    The Field of Dreams Tournament was built for moments like this. Two dead ball era giants drawn together by the bracket — the nineteen seventeen Chicago White Sox, one hundred win World Series champions anchored by the greatest pure hitter of his generation, and the nineteen oh seven Philadelphia Athletics, guided by the quiet genius of Connie Mack and a pitching staff that treated every at-bat like a problem with exactly one correct solution. Shoeless Joe Jackson arrives with Black Betsy and a conscience still clear. The Gentleman from Philadelphia arrives with his scorecard and his patience and a roster full of men who believe in him completely. The dead ball era at its finest, on the grandest stage this tournament offers — and before this series is over, history will be made. All series results, standings, and bracket updates can be found at fieldofdreams2025.substack.com. For questions, comments, or correspondence, reach us at legendschannel3@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  6. May 22

    Episode 18 - A Stage Built For DiMaggio

    Episode 18 drops us into one of the most fascinating matchups the Field of Dreams bracket has produced — the nineteen fifty New York Yankees against the nineteen eighty Cincinnati Reds. Two eras, two distinct styles, and two rosters loaded with names that echo through baseball history. The Yankees bring Casey Stengel’s World Series machine to the floor — DiMaggio, Berra, Rizzuto, Ford, Lopat, and Raschi. The Reds counter with the speed of Dave Collins, the power of George Foster, the brilliance of Johnny Bench, and a young Mario Soto who looks, at times, like the most electric arm in this entire tournament. Drama in both directions. Momentum that shifts like weather — sudden, unpredictable, and unforgiving. And at the center of it all, one man who seems to grow larger every time the stakes rise. This is the Field of Dreams. This is what the bracket was built for. For questions, feedback, or just to talk baseball across the ages, reach out at legendschannel3@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

  7. May 16

    EPISODE 17 — THE YANKEE DYNASTY AND THE UNFULFILLED CUBAN DREAM

    Episode Description In Series Seventy-Eight of the Field of Dreams Tournament, two teams separated by seventeen years and an ocean of baseball history meet on the diamond — and neither one intends to blink first. The 1999 New York Yankees arrive as one of the most decorated clubs in the history of the game, a dynasty in full bloom carrying Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, and a rotation built for October. Standing across from them, the 2016 Miami Marlins — a team with thunder in their lineup and a young pitcher on their staff whose story transcends baseball entirely. José Fernández takes the ball for Miami, and everything that name carries with it makes this series something larger than a bracket matchup. Six games. Two eras. One of the most emotionally charged series in tournament history. This is Episode Seventeen of the Field of Dreams Podcast. For questions, comments, or correspondence — legendschannel3@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

    EPISODE 17 — THE YANKEE DYNASTY AND THE UNFULFILLED CUBAN DREAM

  8. May 8

    Episode 16 — The Big Unit and the Resolve of a Champion

    Two hundred-win clubs. Two completely different eras of baseball. And one of the most compelling seven-game series the Field of Dreams Tournament has produced. When the 1999 Arizona Diamondbacks came to Crosley Field with Randy Johnson at the front of their rotation and one of the most explosive lineups of the expansion era behind him, the 1940 Cincinnati Reds faced their sternest test yet. What followed was seven games of October baseball that had everything — pitcher’s duels, walk-off moments, a rainy must-win afternoon in Cincinnati, and a Game seven that will not be forgotten. Can the first Big Red Machine summon the same championship resolve that carried them through one of the most emotionally devastating seasons in baseball history? Or does the Big Unit have the final word? Tune in and find out. For questions, comments, or to connect with the show, reach us at legendschannel3@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

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Field of Dreams is a long-form baseball podcast where teams from across eras meet in a single-elimination tournament. Each week, one series is brought to life through history, narration, and reflection — preserving the memory of the game and the legends who played it. Produced by Legends Channel legendschanel3@gmail.com fieldofdreams2025.substack.com

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  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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