“Is this heaven?” Ray Kinsella is asked throughout Field of Dreams. “No, it's Iowa,” he responds. But in 2020, Iowa will indeed be the center of baseball heaven. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox will play a “Field of Dreams” game in August of next season, the MLB announced on Thursday morning:

The contest will mark the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Iowa.

Located in Dubuque County, the “Field of Dreams” was built for the movie with the same name, a film that has since become a seminal classic in sports cinema.

This past April marked the 30th anniversary of the film's release (April 21, 1989), and featured Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, an Iowan farmer who hears a supernatural calling to build a baseball field for the ghosts of some of the game's hallowed greats, with the promise that he might reunite with his father.

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Since the film's release, the field has mostly been a spectacle or relic, of sorts. The farm was owned by the Lansing family, who eventually completed the field and set up souvenir shops. At the end of 2012, the Lansing family sold the land to “Go the Distance Baseball,” a group that has since looked to promote tourism and exhibitions.

Major League Baseball has continued to expand their markets in recent years. The Yankees were part of a historic series this season when they competed against the Red Sox in London, and on Aug. 18 the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a game in Williamsport, PA, the home of the Little League World Series.

When it comes to the “Field of Dreams,” however, the Yankees and White Sox will finally “go the distance.”