And Bragg is Still There: Baseball Field Has Key Legacy
And Bragg is Still There: Baseball Field Has Key Legacy by Lindsey Berra, MLB.com
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Major League Baseball spent the last four months turning the overgrown, weed-ridden, rutted old Willow Lakes golf course on United States Army installation Fort Bragg into a 12,500-seat gem of a baseball stadium. Their efforts culminated on Sunday night, when the Marlins beat the Braves, 5-2, in the first regular-season professional contest of any sport to be played on an active military base.
"When I got here today and saw the field for the first time in person, I was just blown away by the quality of the field itself, the playing surface, the quality of the scoreboard and just the overall appeal of the facility," said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. "It is really beyond what I expected."…