FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- It was a busy day for players and Major League Baseball officials long before the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins were set to take the field at Fort Bragg on Sunday night for the first regular-season game of a professional sport played on an active military installation.
Now they're just hoping the rain holds off for the game itself.
Commissioner Rob Manfred had promised in March ''a unique event'' in honor of the military with the Sunday game played at a baseball field that didn't even exist at the time of the announcement.