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If Field of Dreams needs justice, the Iowa Supreme Court will come

 Three hours south of the Field of Dreams, the words of the late W.P. Kinsella were invoked Monday night in front of the Iowa Supreme Court.  Kinsella was the Canadian writer whose novel “Shoeless Joe,” a story of a ghostly baseball player written in in 1978 while he was at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Iowa City, became the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams.” He died Friday at age 81.  Monday night wasn’t primarily a eulogy for the man whose fiction in a roundabout way led 150 or so people to watch a real-life court drama in the Grand Theatre in downtown Keokuk, complete with free cookies. Most of the hour was spent haggling over whether the Dyersville City Council acted improperly four years ago when it rezoned the Field of Dreams from agricultural to commercial ground to make way for a youth sports complex with a couple dozen fields — the All-Star Ballpark Heaven that has yet to materialize. Attorney Susan Hess, speaking on behalf of 23 neighbors of the movie site who objected to plans to build a tournament baseball park on the 193-acre farm next door, quoted “Shoeless Joe” near the end of her rebuttal argument:

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