The Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins will play a “salute-the-troops” game on July 3 at a temporary stadium constructed at a Fort Bragg ballpark. This article points out the “long, complex history” that the military has with MLB as told in a book that I was not aware of: The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad.

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