MLB Crowd Record at Speedway Classic in Bristol? Big Draw Set for Braves-Reds

Officials are expecting a record crowd at Bristol Motor Speedway to watch the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves in the MLB Speedway Classic on Aug. 2.

“We can’t wait for next Saturday night … when that first pitch is thrown out and the stands are full,” Jerry Caldwell, Bristol’s president and general manager, said Friday. “We’ll be setting records, we’ll be having attendance records. We’ll announcing all those details later on, but we’ll be there, I know we will.”