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EDITOR’S LETTER

jim@nzrugbyworld.co.nz

It’s like a Kiwi version of Field of Dreams.

In the Hollywood movie Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, hears a voice telling him that “if you build it, they will come”.

So the Iowa farmer builds a baseball diamond in his corn field for the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Chicago Blacksox to play on again.

There are no ghosts to resurrect for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, but there are hopes

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