Salem’s Murray Cook built baseball’s ‘Field of Dreams.’ Now he’s turned the Bristol speedway into a diamond.

Salem’s Murray Cook built baseball’s ‘Field of Dreams.’ Now he’s turned the Bristol speedway into a diamond.

With two decades as the city of Salem’s director of civic facilities, current Salem City Councilman John Saunders has seen plenty of growth. But one night in the 1980s, when Saunders dropped by to visit his good friend and fellow 1978 Salem High School graduate Murray Cook, he witnessed a scene that has remained etched in his mind for 40 years. “At one time he lived at the Mews. That was the apartment complex,” Saunders recalled. “We went there …