Posts made in April, 2018


If you ask for help, they will come. On Monday, people came. It may not have been a line of endless headlights winding through the rural Iowa farmland, but it was more than enough to breathe life back into one of America’s most beloved baseball fields. “In the old days when a farmer would need help, all the neighbors would come together, and it feels like that,” said Steve Bush. “The community comes...

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DUBUQUE (KWWL) – An eastern Iowa icon is getting back in the game. More than 50 volunteers braved the unseasonably cold temperatures to repair the Field of Dreams. “So what we’re doing in the background, we’re removing the damaged sod, we’re regrading the field to fix the ruts where it got tore up,” said Steve Bush, owner of Bush Sports Turf. The iconic field in Dyersville was damaged in January...

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Staff members from the Quad-Cities River Bandits and Clinton LumberKings as well as a crew from Milan-based Bush Sports Turf worked Monday to help bring the “Dreams’’ to life again. Through a cooperative effort organized by Minor League Baseball, they joined representatives from two other Iowa minor-league baseball teams in helping repair the playing surface at the Field of Dreams site near Dyersville, Iowa. Ruts up to four inches...

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