Mark is not going to like all that valuable farmland wasted on a useless baseball field. Do you have any idea how much this land is worth? Yeah, about $2,200 an acre.
I just watched this movie last night and this was a glaring issue in the film. Because of the field Ray was going to go belly up because he had no crops to sell at harvest according to Mark. Ray used about 3 acres of his 200 acre farm for the ball field. 3 acres valued at about $6,600 and producing revenue of approximately $899.16 ($2.54/bushel, 118 bushels per acre, 3 acres, 1989 statistics). I haven't even calculated what the cost of inputs would be to find out what the cash flow would have been. There is no point in doing that because Ray wasn't going to lose his farm over $900. It was a 200 acre farm and the 4 acre footprint the house, barn, and ballfield sat on wasn't going to cause it to go under.