Major League Baseball will play on a Nascar track for one day and set a record on an unprecedented field.
Major League Baseball will take its big show to Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, a state that has never hosted an MLB game.
Which teams will play at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee?
The Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will play on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.
Where will the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds play?
The Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will play on a field built inside the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, between the third and fourth turns of the half-mile track, which is ready for MLB and more than 85,000 fans.
What record will MLB break with the game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds?
More than 85,000 tickets have been sold for the game, called the “Speedway Classic,” a figure that will break the league’s attendance record of 84,587 set in 1954 when the New York Yankees visited Cleveland.
Other MLB games in non-traditional fields
- 2016 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- 2021 and 2022 in the same Iowa cornfield made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams”
- 2024 tribute to the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama
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