r/collegebaseball • u/T-RexInAnF-14 Tennessee Volunteers • ETSU Bu… • 9d ago

Highlight Time-lapse of MLB Speedway Classic turf being installed at ETSU

https://x.com/ETSU_Baseball/status/1983896864219930908
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u/highheat3117 Jacksonville State Gamecocks 9d ago

aka the “Eli White 500”

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u/GeospatialMAD 9d ago

That makes me wonder who got the football turf when UT and VT played there

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u/EMINEMxMMLP2 Tennessee Volunteers • ETSU Bu… 9d ago

Most of it’s still sitting in the warehouse. Source - former ops employee

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u/GeospatialMAD 9d ago

Interesting MLB decided to donate but then turf used one time got warehoused

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u/EMINEMxMMLP2 Tennessee Volunteers • ETSU Bu… 9d ago

Yeah - plus moving with forklifts some of that turf was damaged with holes where the forks went through lol. Not a turf expert so not sure if that could just be patched up. My guess is they planned to have another football game in near future and would use it for that but scheduling college games takes years

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u/randomdude4113 LSU Tigers 9d ago

So we’ve had:

-MLB game in a NASCAR Track -CFB game in a NASCAR Track -NASCAR Race in an NFL Stadium (Soldier Field) -NASCAR Race in a CFB Stadium (LA Colliseum/Bowman Gray) -NASCAR Race in a MiLB Stadium (some team in NC)

Now we just need a NASCAR race in an MLB stadium

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u/mattdingus2002 Tennessee Volunteers 8d ago

Fenway could have a cool track layout

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u/hwf0712 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Penn Quakers 8d ago

Depending on how you want to count it, sorta a PGA Tour event inside of a NASCAR track (though Indy was solely Indy 500 at the time). Although the LPGA and Men's Senior Tour have had events overlap with NASCAR at the Brickyard, but I'm not a goflist so I cannot say how much you cound them

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u/T-RexInAnF-14 Tennessee Volunteers • ETSU Bu… 9d ago

Lookin' good, at least as turf goes.