North Carolina receives its major league call-up (Ft. Bragg to host MBL game tonight)

http://www.newsobserver.com ^ | July 3, 2016 | ANDREW CARTER

[NKP_Vet]

It has never happened before, and it might never again after Sunday, when North Carolina hosts a Major League Baseball regular-season game for the first time. This, in baseball parlance, is the state’s call-up, its promotion to The Show.

It’s happening at Fort Bragg outside Fayetteville. Major League Baseball has built a field and a temporary stadium and put up lights for the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins, who play Sunday night in a military appreciation game that will be televised nationally on ESPN.

[NKP_Vet]

And as a side note there's an historical marker noting where Babe Ruth hit his first home run is located on Gillespie St. I passed by it a thousand times when I was growing up in Fayetteville.

http://visitfayettevillenc.com/baberuth/anniversary

[rhinohunter]

B..Bu..But they don’t allow pervs in the girls bathrooms in NC. I’m shocked that MLB is allowing a game to be played there and I’m shocked that ESPN would televise a game from there.

[Dilbert San Diego]

What a nice idea. Glad to see them do this.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting point. I wonder what the bathroom arrangements are there? I see it was a temporary stadium built for just this game. Probably they have porta potties where people go one at a time. In that case, people of any sex could go in, and then they side step the vital issue of what bathrooms people are to use.

[CincyRichieRich]

Awesome...kinda like barnstorming.

[FirstFlaBn]

This guy gets a paycheck for writing? How could anyone do something for the first time and not conclude it will never happen again? And this is his lead. Dumbass.

[Misterioso]

MBL??