And we continue sharing with you interesting facts about one of the well-known baseball movies!

13. People regularly misquote the most famous line

The actual quote is: “If you build it, he will come,” not “If you build it, they will come.” It’s a common mistake. The line was ranked number 39 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.

14. The grass was painted green for the film

Filmed on an actual cornfield-turned-baseball diamond in Dyersville, Iowa, a season-long drought led to the need for some cosmetic touch-ups. The dying grass was coated with some green vegetable dye and latex turf paint.

15. Moonlight Graham is a real person

Kinsella used Archibald Moonlight Graham’s real-life story for his book, with the exception that the real Graham’s lone major league game took place on June 1905, not on the last day of the 1922 season like Burt Lancaster’s character in the film. The author found Graham’s name in a baseball encyclopedia he received as a Christmas gift and decided the name was better than anything he could ever come up with on his own.

16. Moonlight Graham’s on-screen uniform in the film is a little anachronistic

Late in the film, a young Graham takes the field in an orange and black “New York Giants” jersey. This isn’t quite period-accurate: The “Giants” didn’t start wearing those uniform colors until 1933 – long after Graham’s MLB career wrapped up.

17. “Field of Dreams” quotes Moonlight Graham’s actual obituary

When the real Graham died in 1965, Veda wrote a stirring tribute. “There were times when children could not afford eyeglasses or milk or clothing,” – noted Ponikvar at the time. “Yet no child was ever denied these essentials because in the background there was always Dr. Graham. Without any fanfare or publicity, the glasses or the milk or the tickets to the ballgame found their way into the child’s pocket.” In the “Field of Dreams”, Anne Seymour recites those lines word-for-word.

18. “Field of Dreams” was Burt Lancaster’s last film to play in theaters

Oscar-winning actor Burt Lancaster was 74 years old during the filming of the “Field of Dreams”. After a couple of TV movie jobs, Lancaster retired from acting.

19. “Field of Dreams” was Gaby Hoffmann’s first movie

Gaby Hoffmann, the daughter of Andy Warhol superstar Viva Auder Hoffmann and soap actor Anthony Herrera, played Ray’s daughter Karin at age six.

20. The filming schedule was based on the height of the corn

The corn had to be Kevin Costner’s height or taller when the voice first spoke to him. With a thumbs up from the state of Iowa, filmmakers dammed a nearby creek to make sure the corn had enough water. It worked almost too well; when Costner first hears “If you build it, he will come,” he had to walk onto a foot-high platform. Just in case the creek damming failed, fake corn was on standby to be shipped in from Asia.

21. “Field of Dreams” corn-based schedule upset the powers-that-be on another Kevin Costner movie

Production on Tony Scott’s “Revenge” was repeatedly postponed while Costner and the cast and crew of the “Field of Dreams” were working with the vegetation. A producer threatened to sue the actor until it was agreed that Costner would start work on “Revenge” two days after the “Field of Dreams” wrapped. “Revenge” ended up making less than $16 million at the box office, while the “Field of Dreams” raked in more than $64 million.

22. Composer James Horner was moved to tears by a rough cut of the film

Before composer James Horner, the musical maestro behind the “Titanic” and “Braveheart”, agreed to score the “Field of Dreams”, Robinson gave him a private test-screening. “He came to look at it at an early stage,” – Robinson said. “We showed him the film and when the lights came up, he got up and left the room.” At first, Robinson was crestfallen, thinking Horner must’ve hated the film. But a few moments later, the Oscar-winning composer came back “very teary-eyed” and agreed to take the job.

23. “Field of Dreams” star Ray Liotta has never seen the movie

Though Ray Liotta has been told that the “Field of Dreams” is a great film, he has yet to see it for himself. Liotta’s mother was ill while they were filming the movie, which he mentally associates with the movie.

24. Ray Liotta thought the “Field of Dreams” script was “silly”

It was only after the actor read the script a couple more times and read the book Shoeless Joe that it made more sense to him.