-- approximate times given are marked from the beginning of the film not the video tape --
0:04:15 The voice
“If you build it, he will come.”
0:10:40 Ray Kinsella to Annie
“I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there, that
‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson will get to
come back and play again."
0:12:22 Ray to Annie -- about his father
“I never forgave him for getting old.”
0:15:55 Ray says to Annie -- on the lawn in front
of the baseball field
“I have just created something totally illogical.”
0: 22:25 Shoeless Joe Jackson speaks to Ray
“Getting thrown out of baseball -- I’ve heard that old men wake up
and scratch itchy legs of dust -- that was me -- I’d wake up at night --
the cold grass at my feet -- the thrill of the grass…”
0: 25:03 Joe speaks to Ray
“I love this game -- I would have played for food money -- it was a
game -- the smells -- did you ever hold a ball between your fingers?
I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town -- hotels -- brass
patoons in the lobbies -- brass beds in the rooms -- it was a crowd --
five-hundred foot ball was hit deep -- I played for nothing.”
0:27:40 Joe to Ray
Joe-“Is this heaven?”
Ray-“No, it’s Iowa.”
1:05:11 Moonlight Graham to Ray
“I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked
to have that chance, just once. To stare down a big league pitcher.
To stare him down and, just as he goes into windup, make him think you
know something he doesn’t. That’s what I wish for.”
1:23:26 Terence Mann to Ray
“Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely
come.”
1:24:21 Mann's Unforgettable Speech
Ray -- people will most definitely come, Ray
They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom
They'll turn up your driveway
not knowing for sure why they're doing it
They'll show up at your door
as innocent as children
longing for the past
of course we won't mind if you look around
you'll say -- it's only twenty dollars per person
they'll pass over the money without even thinking about it
whether it's money they have
or if it's peace they'll like
they'll walk off to the bleachers
they'll sit in their shirt sleeves
on a perfect afternoon
and they'll find they have reserved seats
somewhere along where they sat when they were children
and cheered their heroes
and they'll watch the game
it will be as if they've dipped themselves in magic waters
the memories will be so thick
they'll have to brush them away from their faces
people will come Ray
the one constant through all the years -- Ray
has been baseball
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers
it's been erased like a blackboard
rebuilt
and erased again
basbeball has marked the time
this field
this game
is a part of our past -- Ray
it reminds us of all that once was good
and it could be again
ohh...
people will come Ray
people will most definitely come.
1:39:18 Ray to his father
Ray -- “Hey, Dad! You want to have a catch?
Father -- “I‘d like that.”
Copyright (c) 1999 by Illana Mara Sroka, Undergraduate at Lehigh University.
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