Members of the Smokey Mountain baseball team during practice at the former dumpsite in Manila. Inspired by a Hollywood film starring Kevin Costner about a farmer who builds a baseball diamond on his cornfield, Manila’s huge landfill nicknamed Smokey Mountain has its own “Field of Dreams” to stop its youth going astray. AFP PHOTO
MANILA: Teenager Piolo Perez swings his bat on a baseball field built atop the Philippines’ most notorious trash heap, sending home run balls crashing through the shanties mushrooming on the outfield.