It has never happened before and it might never again after Sunday, when North Carolina hosts a Major League Baseball regular-season game for the first time. This, in baseball parlance, is the state’s call-up, its promotion to The Show.
It’s happening at Fort Bragg outside of Fayetteville. Major League Baseball has built a field and a temporary stadium and put up lights for the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins, who play on Sunday night in a military appreciation game that will be televised nationally on ESPN.
The game will be a spectacle, an historical event. And then it will be history.