With greater than 85,000 tickets bought, the MLB Speedway Traditional between the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves at Bristol Motor Speedway will break Main League Baseball’s single-game attendance report, it was introduced Monday.
Saturday night time’s nationally televised recreation would be the first MLB recreation ever performed in Tennessee.
The present report for paid attendance is 84,587, which was set Sept. 12, 1954, for a doubleheader at Cleveland Stadium between Cleveland and the New York Yankees.
Followers from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 9 nations throughout 4 continents have bought tickets for the sport.
Corridor of Famers representing each groups — Chipper Jones for the Braves and Johnny Bench for the Reds — will throw out the ceremonial first pitches.