Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella begins to hear a mysterious voice which he reads as a command to build a baseball pitch on his land. He follows, and this leads to the appearance of the ghost of his father's hero, the legend ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson. The game cannot go higher as Ray risks his life building the pitch, and discovers an unbelievable and unwilling partner to help gving him answer for all the miracles after all: burned-out radical author Terence Mann.