Ten years this October the first ball was tossed at Big League Dreams — a $30 million sports complex that displaced fields of corn that was being grown for cattle feed using treated wastewater.It took seven years to get to that point including five years of political warfare that threatened to rip Manteca apart after contentious council meeting after contentious council meeting were jammed with opponents livid that the city wanted to build the complex originally at Woodward Park.Some of those meetings lasted past midnight including a record setting nine-hour meeting. Much of the acrimony went away when the council abandoned Woodward Park and opted for the present location on Daniels Street that allowed the use of redevelopment agency funds to build the project.That didn’t silence critics that believed the financial analysis was deeply flawed.Ten years later that analysis stands as a laser sharp document.By the end of the 2015-2016, the analysis projected Manteca would net $3.7 million from the private-public partnership that had the city building and retaining ownership of the facility but then leasing it for 35 years. BLD is responsible for all maintenance and operational costs.