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Get your tickets while you can.
The MLB Speedway Classic will be at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on Saturday, August 2, 2025. The baseball game will feature the hometeam Cincinnati Reds hosting the Atlanta Braves at the 150,000-seat race track.
It will be the first Major League Baseball game held at an auto racetrack, with the goal, of setting an attendance record at the oval-shaped facility. The attendance record was for an MLB exhibition game of 115,300 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox in 2008.
"We look forward to celebrating our game with a wide array of fans, both on and off the field throughout the weekend, and highlighting the rich traditions of sports, music, and community in Tennessee and across the region," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.
The Bristol Motor Speedway was built in 1961 and is known as “The Last Great Coliseum”. It is not the first time the facility hosted a non-NASCAR event. A college football game between Virginia Tech and Tennessee saw an NCAA record crowd of 156,900 fans in 2016.
The price of tickets, packages, and other events will be released in the coming months.
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