On this day: Ten Cent Beer Night Riot
Wednesday, 4th June 2014 by Ian Brown
On June 4, 1974, the Cleveland Indians attempted to boost attendance for their baseball game at Cleveland Stadium by selling beer for only 10¢, an 85% discount. Surprisingly, the plan backfired, as the crowd - able to purchase six beers at a time - became increasingly unruly throughout the game, perhaps inspired by aggressive play on the field. This culminated with drunken fans rioting in the final inning, causing the game to be abandoned. Although the stadium was torn down some years ago (it's modern replacement is shown here), the Ten Cent Beer Night Riot lives on in local memory.
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Ian Brown lives in Ottawa, Canada, and spends his spare time perusing maps to find new routes to ride on his orange bicycle.
Actually, you have a picture of the stadium where the Browns play. The modern football replacement… The Indians play at Progressive Field on the other side of downtown. https://plus.google.com/116867471937036857438/about?hl=en
Thanks Daniel, but isn’t this the site of the former joint-use Cleveland Stadium where the riot happened? (It wouldn’t be the first time Wikipedia misled me if not…)
I guess I just missed that the language was implying that the image was the modern stadium on the same site, not the modern stadium where the Indians play. Heck you could also link to the current location of the old Cleveland Stadium which is out there in lake Erie somewhere acting as an artificial reef.