During the summer solstice, two sporting events shine bright in the Fairbanks community — the Midnight Sun Game and Midnight Sun Run.

In Alaska, the summer solstice is celebrated with a midnight baseball game. Each year on the summer solstice, the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks celebrate their status as the most northerly baseball ...

The Alaska Baseball League is somewhat ... did not include the night of the summer solstice, when the Goldpanners host a traditional “Midnight Sun” game that begins at 10:30 a.m. and finishes ...

In the U.S., some Native American tribes living in the plains and The Rocky Mountains perform a Sun Dance to celebrate the summer solstice. In Fairbanks, Alaska, a baseball game known as the ...

Smithsonian Magazine reports that the summer solstice is celebrated in Sweden by dancing around a maypole. In Fairbanks, Alaska, people watch a baseball game under the midnight sun. In Iceland ...

The summer solstice is widely observed ... In Fairbanks, Alaska, residents have played an annual Midnight Sun baseball game since 1906, TIME previously reported. A player throws the first pitch ...

So what is a solstice, exactly ... the general manager of the Alaska Goldpanners baseball team, which has been hosting the game since 1960. Every year, a different team—usually from out of ...

Depending on where it takes place, a celebration of the summer solstice can look like a baseball game at midnight in Fairbanks, Alaska, or an all-day mass yoga gathering in Times Square.

The summer solstice—also called midsummer—marks the moment when the North Pole is angled more toward the sun than on any other day of the year, resulting in the longest period of sunlight of ...