The Fort Bragg Game was a Major League Baseball (MLB) specialty game played between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves of MLB's National League at Fort Bragg Stadium in Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty), North Carolina, on July 3, 2016. The game was broadcast on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. The game was the first regular season professional sports event ever held on an active military base, and the first MLB game played in North Carolina. The Marlins defeated the Braves, 5–2. After the game, the grandstands were removed, and the field became a multi-use sporting ground.
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Fort Liberty, formerly FortBragg, is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations...
unfamiliar with the sport. Hample acquired a ticket to the FortBraggGame on July 3, 2016, at FortBragg Stadium, that was meant for active duty military personnel...
the same stadium. The 2016 FortBragggame was the first MLB game played on an active military base and the first MLB game played in the state of North...
Mock, Joe (July 4, 2016). "Marlins top Braves in unique FortBraggGame". USA Today. FortBragg: Gannett Company. Retrieved July 4, 2016. O'Brien, David...
younger age. After the success of the FortBraggGame between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves at FortBragg, North Carolina, in July 2016, reports...
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment at Camp Toccoa, Georgia; Fort Benning, Georgia; and FortBragg, North Carolina. Sink commanded the 506th throughout World...
McSherry. The Opening Day game had been postponed after McSherry collapsed on the field; he died at a local hospital. After the game was postponed, Schott...
States, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of FortBragg to the interchange with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad at Willits....
transferred to nearby Christian High School. He averaged 43.7 points per game in basketball in his senior season. Clark played college basketball at the...
Baseball game to have a female commentator in the booth, Jessica Mendoza.[citation needed] On July 3, 2016, Sunday Night Baseball aired the FortBraggGame, the...
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Arizona Instructional leagues. Rackley also umpired the 2007 All-Star Futures Game, and is an instructor at the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School. He was hired...
He was on the Braves' roster due to MLB allowing both teams in the FortBraggGame to have a 26th player active. Catcher Shawn Zarraga was on the active...
GMO labeling law goes into effect—the first in the U.S. July 3 – The FortBraggGame becomes the first professional sporting event to ever be held on an...
Miami Marlins played the FortBraggGame, a special neutral-site game at FortBragg Stadium, a newly constructed field in FortBragg, North Carolina, in observance...
Longtime host Norm Hitzges to move to a morning show on sister station". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. January 8, 2000. Retrieved December 24, 2008. Horn,...
was promoted to the major leagues as the Braves' 26th man for the FortBraggGame on July 3 against the Miami Marlins, and returned to Gwinnett the next...
contestant on the TV game show To Tell the Truth, hosted by John O'Hurley. She spent 40 years working as a marketing coordinator for the FortBragg-Mendocino Coast...
the ninth inning. On July 3, 2016, Conley started the FortBraggGame, the first time an MLB game was played at an active military base. He pitched the...
round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. In 2012, pitching for the Fort Wayne TinCaps, Wisler went 5–4 with a 2.53 earned run average and 113 strikeouts...
Because TBS airs only one game on most Tuesday nights, MLB Network will often air a second game before or after the TBS game. On January 5, 1989, Major...
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