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Documentary filmmaker shooting at Cobb Field

 

Associated Press

Updated: July 12, 2007, 11:27 AM ET

 

BILLINGS, Mont. -- During a visit to his parents' house in Idaho last summer, Craig Lindvahl fell in love with Pioneer League baseball.

 

He went to a Chukars game in Idaho Falls, and he couldn't help noticing the intensity of the fans, the sense of connection so many of them felt for the team.

 

"For a lot of people," he said, "it was like, 'These are our boys, this is our team.' I looked around and I said, 'This is what baseball is supposed to be. This is why baseball was invented."

 

Lindvahl, a teacher and documentary filmmaker from Illinois, started thinking that night about his next project -- a film about a day in the life of a minor league ballpark. After doing some research and talking to minor league followers, Lindvahl decided Cobb Field would be the perfect subject for his documentary.

 

 

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Rod Nelson