via Shryocks Callaway Farms
This year's corn maze is inspired by a World Series match-up 30 years ago. Now baseball fans say they're hoping for a rematch.
Thirty years after the I-70 Series, when the Kansas City Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals to win the team’s only World Series title, baseball fans are getting excited for the possibility of a rematch thanks to a mid-Missouri corn maze.
Shryocks Callaway Farms, located east of Columbia off I-70, uses global positioning technology to design its corn maze every year, often with a theme based on Mizzou or St. Louis sports. Last year’s maze featured a design of the farm’s favorite tractor, though the 2007 maze was dedicated to the Cardinals’ 11th World Series win.
This year’s maze, which opens Friday, showcases the I-70 Series and includes Missouri’s Major League Baseball team logos and an outline of the state. (Don’t worry, the farm says it got permission from MLB to use the logos.) An aerial photo caught ESPN’s eye over the weekend:
From this side of October, the maze feels more like a prediction for the future than a throwback to the past. Both teams are at the top of their leagues this season, making a rematch of the 1985 series a real possibility. Cardinals and Royals fans alike seem excited by the idea:
And as CBS Sports notes, the 30-year anniversary of the STL-KC matchup coincides with a 30-year high for world corn output, making the maze seem even more prophetic.
We’ve reached out to the farm for more details and will update this post when we hear back.
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