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hat Joe Hayden has created in Clermont County is not just a baseball team but an organization: not just an
organization but a world. In his country corner between Clough Pike and Bach Buxton Road in Amelia, he has
handcrafted his own "Field of Dreams", a summer utopia that measures 330 feet down the line and ushers young
men into the next dimension. Most baseball dreamers do something like this only at their desks, escaping into
fantasy leagues that enable them to construct a lineup and call it their own. Hayden, on the other hand -- with
funds from his family's foundation -- built a stadium complete with an indoor batting cage, a four-bay equipment
garage and a professionally maintained playing field that was designed to simulate the park in Farmington, New
Mexico, where the Redskins spend a heady week every August trying to bring home yet another Connie Mack national
championship.
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