BRISTOL, Tenn. — A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first inning.

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Fans returning Sunday only wanted to watch the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds play ball

Sunday was dry at Bristol Motor Speedway even with overcast skies

The previous paid attendance of 84,587 was set Sept. 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the New York Yankees

Fans returning Sunday only wanted to watch the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds play ball. They enjoyed enough of star Tim McGraw and Pitbull in the rain that suspended the first MLB regular-season game in the state of Tennessee.

“We got to see all of that (Saturday), so

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