Jeremiah Yolkut, Major League Baseball senior vice president of global events, tells Road & Track that when you look down the right-field line, you get an immediate feel for how banked the track is. “When the ball flies out and hits the track, there is a likelihood it will bounce back over the wall because of the angle,” he says.

From pitchers to catchers, some of NASCAR's biggest names imagined their all-driver baseball teams before Saturday's MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol.

The MLB Speedway Classic between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds is a multi-year project to turn the racetrack into a baseball facility.