Ray Kinsella
Farmer at Field of Dreams Farm- Claim this Profile
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Big Bad Wolf
After thoroughly reading your LinkedIn page Ray , I enjoyed how you explained how important your father was to you growing up. In your about section, I feel like I get a good sense of who you are and what goals you want to accomplish. I really can see how passionate you are about baseball and I understand your passion stems from your father and the love you both shared. Also your LinkedIn page illustrates how hard working you are and never let the difficulties that comes with life defeat you. Well written about section and experience section, gives a great understanding of his background and allows the audience to feel as if they know him personally
Big Bad Wolf
After thoroughly reading your LinkedIn page Ray , I enjoyed how you explained how important your father was to you growing up. In your about section, I feel like I get a good sense of who you are and what goals you want to accomplish. I really can see how passionate you are about baseball and I understand your passion stems from your father and the love you both shared. Also your LinkedIn page illustrates how hard working you are and never let the difficulties that comes with life defeat you. Well written about section and experience section, gives a great understanding of his background and allows the audience to feel as if they know him personally
Big Bad Wolf
After thoroughly reading your LinkedIn page Ray , I enjoyed how you explained how important your father was to you growing up. In your about section, I feel like I get a good sense of who you are and what goals you want to accomplish. I really can see how passionate you are about baseball and I understand your passion stems from your father and the love you both shared. Also your LinkedIn page illustrates how hard working you are and never let the difficulties that comes with life defeat you. Well written about section and experience section, gives a great understanding of his background and allows the audience to feel as if they know him personally
Big Bad Wolf
After thoroughly reading your LinkedIn page Ray , I enjoyed how you explained how important your father was to you growing up. In your about section, I feel like I get a good sense of who you are and what goals you want to accomplish. I really can see how passionate you are about baseball and I understand your passion stems from your father and the love you both shared. Also your LinkedIn page illustrates how hard working you are and never let the difficulties that comes with life defeat you. Well written about section and experience section, gives a great understanding of his background and allows the audience to feel as if they know him personally
Experience
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Field of Dreams Farm
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Farmer
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Apr 1975 - Present
Over the years my greatest feats came after college. I was able to marry my beautiful wife Annie and raise my only child, Karin. While raising a family I became a successful farmer in Iowa where I had a large cornfield. Then one night I heard a voice, “If you build it, he will come”. People thought I was crazy for plowing over an acre of my farm to build a baseball field. It was all worth it once it brought back old players like Shoeless Joe, giving him a second chance at baseball. After a night at the ballpark, I heard the second voice saying, “Ease his pain”. So, I did my research and landed on a man with a dream that had been lost, and he is now under heavy fire for his novels. I drove to Boston to find him and take him to a baseball game at Fenway Park, this was Terrance Mann. At the ballgame that night, I heard the third and final voice which stated, “Go the distance”. Terrance heard it too, so we rushed to Minnesota to find the ballplayer turned doctor, Archibald “Moonlight” Grahm. After running into a wall and finding out the house was going to be foreclosed, we rushed home and picked up our last hope, Archie Grahm a boy looking to play for a team out west. All these adventures would lead to saving my farm and my field after a line of cars lit up the roads from Iowa City to see the teams play in Ray’s “Field of Dreams”, which would provide the money to save the farm. Show less
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Education
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1970 - 1974
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature, General
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