re: Let's talk about Terrance Mann in Field of Dreams.

I've read that the guy that wrote the book did it in some kind of effort to get J.D. Sallinger to come out of reclusiveness. Apparently the book focused much more on the Mann character than the movie did and there were some changes in adopting it to the screen.

Who knows. I never really got the idea that it was all a dream though. That would be a bummer when he woke up and the farm was still pretty much in heavy debt. (I'm thinking it wasn't just building the baseball field that led to it's financial problems).