Another movie in Iowa

Community Field in Burlington and John O'Donnell Stadium in Quad Cities have been used for filming a movie this summer. The same can be said of another Midwest League stadium and that movie is out now.

The Final Season is a movie about well, the final season of a high school baseball team in Iowa. The movie was filmed in Iowa and used Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids for some scenes.

The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has the story from the perspective of one of the players on that Norway, Iowa team who just happens to be the baseball coach at UW-Platteville.

Much like a farmer needs tools to work in the fields, the only requisite parts for young men in Norway, Iowa, are bats and gloves.

UW-Platteville baseball coach Eric Frese knows the town's rich tradition quite well. His senior season in 1991 is portrayed in the film, "The Final Season," which opened nationwide Friday starring Sean Astin and Powers Boothe.

Frese played center field for the Tigers, a small-school powerhouse that had won 20 state titles over a 24-year span before the school was shut down and consolidated into what is now known as Benton Community of Van Horne after the 1991 season.

Astin plays Kent Stock, the team's assistant coach taking over for the legendary Jim VanSyococ, who resigned in 1990. Boothe plays VanSyococ in the film.

Here is the official web site of The Final Season. This is the IMDB page. Here is the movie poster.