MLB officials pack in full schedule before Fort Bragg game (Yahoo Sports)

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. 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. Manfred, players union executive director Tony Clark, and MLB chief baseball officer Joe Torre made a stop Sunday afternoon at the Fisher House - which provides military families with housing close to loved ones during hospitalizations - as part of a series of stops around the sprawling Army post in the sandhills of North Carolina.