Ten Cent Beer Night was a promotion held by Indian Cleveland from Major League Baseball during a game against Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium on Tuesday, June 4, 1974.
The idea behind the promotion was to attract more fans to the game by offering 12 ounces of liquid (355 ml) 3.2% pint glasses just 10 cents each, big discount at the regular price of 65 cents, with a limit of six beers per purchase but without limits on the number of purchases made during the game. During the game, the fans got very drunk, culminating in a riot in the ninth inning that caused the game to be charred due to the crowd's unrestrained crowd and because the game could not proceed at the right time.
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The Indians had previously held such a promotion without incident, starting with Nickel Beer Day in 1971. However, the blank-bench-cleas fights in the team's last weekend's meeting at Arlington Stadium in Texas left some Indian fans with a grudge against Rangers.
In Texas, problems have started at the bottom of the fourth inning by walking into Rangers' Tom Grieve, followed by single Lenny Randle. The next batter hit a double play ball into third baseman Indian John Lowenstein; He stepped on a third base bag for Grieve's retirement and threw the ball into second base, but Randle interrupted the game with a hard slide into Jack Brohamer's second baseman.
The Indians responded in the eighth base when Milt Wilcox pitcher was behind Randle's legs. Randle finally lied. When Wilcox tried to lower it and signal Randle (which he did), Randle hit him with his arm. The first Indian baseman John Ellis responded by punching Randle, and both benches were emptied for a fight. After the fight broke out, as Indian players and coaches returned to the dugout, they were struck by the food and beer thrown by Rangers fans; The catcher Dave Duncan should be curbed from going to the stands to fight with fans.
The game was not suspended or canceled, no players from both teams were issued, and Rangers won 3-0.
After the game, a Cleveland reporter asked Rangers manager Billy Martin "Are you going to bring your armor to Cleveland?" which Martin replied, "No, they will not have enough fans there to worry about." During the week leading up to the next team meeting in Cleveland, radio talk show host Pete Franklin and Indian radio broadcaster Joe Tait made a comment that sparked fanfare to Rangers fans. In addition, The Plain Dealer prints the cartoon on the day of the game showing Chairman Wahoo holding a pair of boxing gloves with the title, "Prepare for anything."
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Game
Issue from start
Six days after the fight in Texas, the promotion of Ten Cent Beer Night Cleveland attracted 25,134 fans to Cleveland Stadium for Tuesday night's game, double the expected number.
The Rangers quickly led 5-1. Meanwhile, throughout the game, the drunken ones get more and more chaotic. Early in the match, Cleveland Leron Lee hit the drive line into Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, after which Jenkins fell to the ground. Fans on the upper deck of the stadium cheered, then shouted "Hit them again! Hit again! Harder! Harder!" A woman ran into a circle on the Indian deck and flaunted her breasts, and a naked man ran to the second base when Grieve hit the second home run of the game. One innings later, a pair of father-and-son ran out and radiated the fans on the benches.
As the game progresses, more fans run into the field and cause problems. Ranger Mike Hargrove, who would then manage the Indians and lead them to the World Series twice in 1995 and 1997, was pelted with hot dogs and spit, and at one point was almost hit by an empty gallon pitcher of Thunderbird.
The Rangers then argued a call in which Lee was called safe in close play at the third base, spiking Jenkins with his cleats in the process and forcing him to leave the game. Rangers' angry response to this appeal infuriated Cleveland fans, who once again began to throw objects into the field. Someone threw a firecracker into a Rangers bullpen.
At the bottom of the ninth, Indians managed to collect, tie the game 5-5, and make Rusty Torres in second base represent a potential victory. However, with the crowd having drunk heavily for nine innings, the situation finally peaked.
Riot
After the Indians managed to tie the game, a 19-year-old fan named Terry Yerkic ran into the field and attempted to steal a cap outside Texan's Jeff Burroughs. Facing the fan, Burroughs stumbled. Thinking that Burroughs had been attacked, Texas manager Billy Martin struck onto the pitch with his players right behind, several bats holding. A large number of drunken fans - some armed with knives, chains, and stadium part seats that they tore - jumped onto the field, and others threw bottles from the stands. Hundreds of fans surrounded Rangers who lost out.
Realizing that Rangers' lives may be in jeopardy, Cleveland manager Ken Aspromonte ordered his players to take bats and help Rangers, attacking his own team fans in the process. The rioters began to throw the steel folding chairs, and the Cleveland help handler, Tom Hilgendorf, was beaten in the head by one of them. Hargrove, after beating a riot in a fight, had to fight another on his way back to the Texas break room. Both teams withdrew from the field through a pile in the group, with players protecting each other.
The bases were withdrawn and stolen, and many rioters threw various items including cups, stones, bottles, batteries from radio, hot dogs, popcorn, and folding chairs. As a result, the head of the crew referee Nestor Chylak, realizing that the order will not be recovered in a timely manner, losing the game to Texas. He was also the victim of the rioters, when someone attacked and cut off his head with a part of the stadium seat and his hand was cut by the thrown stone. He then called the fans "uncontrollable animals" and declared that he had never seen anything like what had happened, "except at the zoo".
Like Joe Tait and Herb Scores called live riots on the radio, the Score mentions the inability of the security guards to handle the crowd. He said, "Ah, this is a real tragedy." The Cleveland Police Department has finally arrived to restore order.
Later, Cleveland general manager, Phil Seghi, blamed the referee for losing control of the game. The Sporting News writes that "Seghi's perspective may be different if he is in Chylak's shoes, in the midst of a knife, throwing bottles, throwing chairs, twisting fists." American League President Lee MacPhail commented, "There is no doubt that beer plays a role in the unrest."
The next Beer Night promotion on July 18 attracted 41,848 fans with beer again selling for 10 cents per cup but with a limit of two cups per person at a reduced price.
Score box
Leading participants
Among the runaway Indian players are players outside Rusty Torres. In his career, Torres finally saw three major league baseball basics close down (all of which resulted in losing): in addition to this game he had with the New York Yankees in the Senator's last game in Washington in 1971, and he would be with the Chicago White Sox during Disposal Night The famous Disco in 1979.
NBC's broadcaster Tim Russert, then a student at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, attended the game. "I left with $ 2 in my pocket," recalled the host Meet the Press . "You do the math."
See also
- Bounty Bowl
- Disco Disco Night
- Forfeit (baseball) for a list of similar events
- Hooliganism
References
External links
- Score box and play-by-play in Retrosheet
- USA Today Articles
- SFGate articles
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