For one day only, MLB is turning a NASCAR track into a record-breaking stadium

More than 85,000 tickets have been sold for a matchup dubbed the “Speedway Classic,” a number that will break the league’s attendance record of 84,587 set in 1954.

More fans than have ever watched a Major League Baseball game are set to show up Saturday to a field that didn’t exist 32 days ago, in a state that has never hosted an MLB game.

The baseball itself will be the only thing familiar about the matchup at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds — and that is on purpose.

MLB has staged games in unconventional places for the past decade. Yet while a 2016 game at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, games in 2021 and 2022 at the same Iowa cornfield made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams,” and last year’s Negro Leagues tribute at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, were held in intimate settings, MLB’s visit to a venue better known for motorsports was designed as a spectacle of sheer size.

More than 85,000 tickets have been sold for a matchup dubbed the “Speedway Classic,” a number that will break the league’s attendance record of 84,587 set in 1954 when the New York Yankees visited Cleveland.

“This one really ranks up there big just because of the enormity of what we’re building,” Murray Cook, the president of BrightView Sports, who consults MLB on fields and ballparks, told “TODAY.”