Yes, Tom Hannon’s favorite movie is “Field of Dreams.’’ In the 1989 movie, Kevin Costner plays a

baseball fan perplexed by the voices of baseball legends whispering, “If you build it, he will come.’’ When he plows his cornfield under to construct a baseball field, his neighbors think he is nuts. Here is the story of his Field of dreams, “Little Ebbets Field.” 

Luckily, when Hannon started removing truckloads of soil to create a one-quarter-scale replica of Ebbets Field, properly named “Little Ebbets Field” for the long-gone Brooklyn Dodgers’ home, in his Amesbury front yard four years ago, his neighbors kept any doubts to themselves.

His family, however, did not. As Hannon toiled like a man possessed to build Little Ebbets Field, complete with batter’s box, scoreboard, and a precisely measured layout (for Wiffle ball games), some raised eyebrows.

“When I first saw him building it, I thought he was insane,’’ said Hannon’s 17-year-old son, Thomas. Daughter Kelli Fowle wasn’t as surprised. After all, her dad built a Fenway Park replica at their previous house. “My whole life we have been huge baseball fans,’’ she said.

With professional baseball’s spring training well underway, Hannon and his Little Ebbets Field are gearing up for the coming season as well. His devotion to baseball is legendary, so Hannon’s recent efforts at building an online baseball community (at www.thebaseballpage.com) is a logical step. Driven to connect fans, from hardcore to novice, Hannon sees baseball as both culture and sport.

(The Baseball Page was transferred in 2013 to a new owner and later closed by a fantasy sports company)

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