Mark Hirsch/New York Times
Mike Dollar had a faraway look as he watched his wife, Laura, hit baseballs to their son, Jesse, who fielded them at shortstop in an Atlanta Braves T-shirt. Abby, their daughter, played catcher. The sun was bright, the sky was clear and the cornstalks were waving in the breeze.
“They really captured the purity of it,” said Dollar, who had driven 900 miles from their home in Georgia so they could frolic here. “This field, we’d hate to see it change.”
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