Annie build a baseball filed on their farms equipped with lights and bleachers. They spent their entire life savings to build this field. Ray was motivated to build the field because he did not want to turn into his father who lived his whole life without doing anything spontaneous. Ray claimed that his father never had the chance to live out his dreams to be a baseball player. Ray thought that by building this field he would be living out his dream.
             Ray builds the filed and waits to see what will happen. As it turns out, Ray was right. Shoeless Joe Jackson appears out of the cornfield, him and Ray throw the baseball around for a while, and Jackson hits a home run out of the field. Jackson talks about his deep love for the game of baseball and mentions that he would have played the game for nothing. The next day Joe Jackson returns with his other White Sox teammates. They practice out on the field and Ray introduces them to his wife Annie and daughter Katie. Both are amazed by the presence of the baseball players and they all sit outside and watch them practice the game of baseball. At the end of the night one of the players asked Ray if this field is heaven. Ray responds by telling the player that this is not heaven...it is Iowa.
             One afternoon Ray and his family were watching the players practice when Annie's brother Mark comes out to the field. Mark talks about the financial troubles that Ray is in and pleads Ray to sell the farm to him and his partners. Ray tells him that he is not selling the farm and Mark storms off the filed angry and does not see the players practicing. He cannot see them. As darkness falls, Ray is sleeping and he hears the voice "Ease his pain".
             Ray is now more confused by the voice. He at first does not know the meaning behind the phrase. He later connect the voice to a writer named Terrance Mann who was activist and popular writer during the
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