UNDATED (AP) — Major League Baseball will hold another Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, with the Chicago Cubs taking on the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 11. The game will be played at a temporary venue built next to the site where the iconic 1989 baseball movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. That stadium hosted the Chicago White Sox’s 9-8 win over the New York Yankees last week.
In other MLB news:
— Milwaukee Bucks forward and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo has joined the Milwaukee Brewers’ ownership group, calling it a dream come true for a kid from Greece with immigrant parents. Brewers principal owner Mark Attanasio actually completed the deal with Antetokounmpo in May, but the two kept it a secret while the Bucks continued their charge to the NBA championship. Antetokounmpo said he started thinking about getting involved in ownership of a pro sports franchise last year while he was in the NBA playoff bubble at Walt Disney World.
— Major League Baseball is ending a 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps after signing a new partnership with a rival company. The loss of the MLB partnership immediately scuttled a deal announced earlier this year that would have made Topps a publicly traded company. ESPN reported on Thursday that it obtained a memo from the Major League Baseball Players Association that a yet-to-be-named company created by the sports merchandise company Fanatics will be the exclusive licensee for baseball cards at the end of next year.
