Egypt. Australia. A scorching canine place in Pennsylvania. A junior school in Chicago.

If Main League Baseball is in search of one other place for a sport, oh man, do we’ve got some enjoyable concepts.

The second “Area of Desires” sport is Thursday night time within the cornfields of jap Iowa, close to the location of the beloved 1989 film. The Chicago Cubs play the Cincinnati Reds after the 2021 sport — a wild 9-8 victory for the Chicago White Sox in opposition to the New York Yankees — was a smashing success.

However Main League Baseball needs to attend earlier than making a call on a 3rd “Area of Desires” date. It has been involved with a number of cities about future video games — together with Evansville, Indiana, about Bosse Area, the place components of the 1992 film “A League of Their Personal” had been filmed — and it has an inner working group inspecting the chances.

Within the meantime, The Related Press requested a number of sports activities and leisure figures the place they’d take a significant league sport if that they had a selection, and so they responded with websites everywhere in the world.

John Thorn, Main League Baseball’s official historian, needs to return to Egypt. Not solely did main leaguers play a February 1889 sport close to the pyramids, however the earliest document of a bat-and-ball sport — seker-hemat, performed by Egyptian pharaohs — is from a wall aid in an Egyptian temple.

“Such a sport performed immediately can be doubly necessary as Egypt is just not solely the cradle of civilization but additionally the cradle of baseball,” Thorn stated in an e-mail.

Chicago White Sox nearer Liam Hendriks wished to play a sport in his native Australia.

“Ideally, I’d prefer to take it to Baseball Park in Perth as a result of that’s the place I grew up taking part in,” Hendriks stated. “Particularly in Perth, we don’t actually get anybody on that coast fairly often, so having the ability to take it there can be a deal with for everyone concerned.”

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks opened the 2014 season in Australia, with the Dodgers sweeping a pair of video games at Sydney Cricket Floor.

Actor Michael Imperioli selected Rome as a result of he stated it’s his favourite metropolis on the planet. However he wasn’t positive how it could be obtained.

“They love basketball there and clearly soccer,” he stated. “However I don’t know if baseball interprets so nicely. Though it could be fairly enjoyable to do it there.”

Fairly enjoyable, certainly.

The connection to dwelling was a recurring theme.

Bonnie Hunt, an actor and lifelong Cubs fan, prompt Wilbur Wright Faculty close to the place she grew up in her hometown of Chicago.

“I might do it there as a result of I keep in mind my dad hitting the ball out for us seven children out within the outfield, me and my six siblings, and we’d run and get the ball,” stated Hunt, the author, director and showrunner for “ Amber Brown,” a brand new sequence on Apple TV+.

“My dad would throw the ball up within the air and hit it himself. And that may be my ‘Area of Desires’ … to return to the previous neighborhood and be with all the youngsters I grew up with.”

Cleveland Guardians supervisor Terry Francona had an analogous thought, however with a twist. Francona and his father, Tito, one other former main leaguer, each grew up in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, close to Pittsburgh.

Terry Francona, 63, needs to play in his hometown — due to Brighton Sizzling Canine Shoppe.

“Sizzling canines after the sport,” a grinning Francona stated. “Earlier than and after.”

Like Francona, Phoenix Mercury guard Diamond DeShields additionally has sturdy household ties to baseball. DeShields’ father, Delino, spent 13 years within the majors, and her brother, Delino Jr., has appeared in 601 video games with three groups over seven seasons.

Diamond DeShields had a extra uncommon thought.

“I believe inside an airport hangar can be cool or an plane service if it was large enough to have a area like they do in school basketball,” she stated. “I’d say like at a military base. Inside a hangar can be nice.”

The Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 in a brief ballpark at Fort Bragg on July 3, 2016, and a return to a U.S. navy put up could be an interesting possibility for MLB.

Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, hit on a pair extra prospects that very nicely could possibly be into consideration.

“I’m partisan to these few remaining locations that the Negro Leagues known as dwelling,” Kendrick stated in an e-mail, “Rickwood Area as a tribute to Willie Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons or Paterson, (New Jersey) at Hinchliffe when it’s restored as a tribute to Monte Irvin, Larry Doby and groups just like the (New York) Black Yankees and others that performed on that historic website.”