The Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds are set to play in front of the largest crowd in MLB history on Saturday, as the two clubs will meet at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The game will also mark the first regular-season MLB game ever held in the state of Tennessee.
MLB announced earlier this week that over 85,000 tickets have been sold for the game. The current MLB attendance record was set on September 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the New York Yankees.
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While Cleveland Stadium had the capacity to hold crowds of over 70,000 in the 1950s, modern MLB stadiums tend to have smaller capacities. Atlanta's Truist Park, which opened in 2017, has a capacity of about 41,000. Its previous home, Turner