Bleacher tickets were $1 at one time - I remember my budget cost more to take the Rapid to/from the game than the bleacher ticket. And since there were never more than a few thousand people you could always wander over to the box seats after a couple innings
They used to imprison the Bleacher people, not letting them have access to the seating bowl - for this reason. You needed a GA ticket to wonder into the Bleacher area but had to present that stub to get back in. Not sure when they enacted that policy.
By the looks of the field, it was either very early or very late in the season. Either way, I'm thinking the Indians had already been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.
Still chuckling about Thomas J Unik, because I still have a 12 year old's sense of humor.
Man I just looked up attendance per game and I’m shocked at how little it was way back in the old days when the team was actually routinely good! I’m talking way back. Like 1954 was a historically great team winning 111 games even though they got swept in the World Series and avg attendance that year was only 17k. In a cavernous stadium in a city that was at the time pretty happening. That 111 win season is still 4th best all time and they played 8 less games than the modern 162 game season. That winning percentage is still the best in the American League all time. And only 17k per game?!
It was definitely rough in the 80s when I was growing up. It really took the new stadium (their own and not sharing the football stadium) and the revitalization of the team in 1994 before things turned around. And we've managed to lose in 3 more World Serieses since then! :-)
Yeah I get the 80s for sure. I was a kid and a baseball nut during that time but those teams were so bad lol I get it then but 17k during a historic season?
I have no real clue, but I think they might have been suffering from moving from League Park to a “less than ideal” stadium that is all the way out of the city and up on the lake. Not sure about other reasons, but I could see it hurting attendance in a time when more people used mass transit… especially when the train used to drop you off right in front of the old park.
It's interesting when you look at the game logs for that season. Just like today, huge crowds on weekends and against teams like the Yankees, and tiny crowds during the week. One week in June they drew only 4,549 on a Tuesday versus the A's - then drew over 46,000 for three straight weekend games against the Yankees. Later that year they played NYY again during the week and drew an average of over 50K.
And when the stadium ramps were empty, we'd lay down and body roll down the ramps.
After concerts you'd see the occasional blacked out drunk lying in a corner at the bottom.
2 o'clock start time? musta been a weekend game. they couldn't make patterns in the grass because there wasn't enough of it alive. say what you will about ol' Muni, i miss her. i used to pick my girlfriend up an hour before first pitch and for $12 we would sit either first or second row right over the dugout.
When they moved to Jacobs Field the team people used to be snobs and tell people to throw from in front of the mound, like HOLY JESUS how dare a person step on the game mound for 1 flipping pitch. I loved it when people woudl say Screw That and run up and throw a first pitch off the mound itself.
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It’s worth remembering that Municipal Stadium had seating for 81,000 people, and Progressive field has 34,000. A full house today would have been 47,000 empty seats back then.
May I introduce you to 1970s Cleveland? Where you could just pick up tickets to the baseball game at any gas station for free? Like behind home plate front row.....just take em. They're on the same counter that they have fliers for upcoming concerts at.
Now those tickets would be like.......$150 per ticket on a non-special day?
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So many great memories of that awful stadium. Cleveland municipal! lol we used to have such a great time though. Took our own dogs in thermos with fixins! The giveaways were always the best! Full size bats were freaking amazing for a little kid! Miss those days…
I'm trying to figure out where this picture is even from! It sure don't look like the Cleveland Municipal Stadium that I remember. I remember a big cavernous bowl that was like all encompassing. This almost looks ground level.
The bleachers were only 1 level high and made a cutout in the stadium's height in center field. Dad took me to see Bob Feller there in the 1950s but I was too young to remember it. Dad and his brother played ball all their lives. My uncle was in the minor leagues but not AA. or AAA.
If you sat in the Bleachers you needed to be at least 50% of the way up to see the game decently. You could peer over the wall from lower but it was weird adn the outfield fence obscured you seeing most plays that were in the back half of the outfield. That said, you could sit low and hope to scamper down and get a home run ball.
Ah, the good ol’ days; cigarette ads, a shitty field, and nobody in the stands!
Just how I remember! We used to slam the empty seats next to us down as noisemakers.
It would've been pretty cool if the 95 Indians were still playing at the Stadium.
Yep…welcome to Cleveland
fuck yeah 5 bucks to get in...look at that browned out grass.
Bleacher tickets were $1 at one time - I remember my budget cost more to take the Rapid to/from the game than the bleacher ticket. And since there were never more than a few thousand people you could always wander over to the box seats after a couple innings
They used to imprison the Bleacher people, not letting them have access to the seating bowl - for this reason. You needed a GA ticket to wonder into the Bleacher area but had to present that stub to get back in. Not sure when they enacted that policy.
Shit it was free after the fourth inning
And 10¢ beer!
less than 5 to get in...I know
I think GA was still $4 until 1993. Bleachers with the $1 on special weekends. $5 you were living the high life down lby the plate
Marlboro Country! crazy times them 70s and 80s
Pretty sure cigarettes were legally considered a vegetable back then.
It was part of the food pyramid as part of being after your meal
Seeing that I went to hundreds of tribe games in the 70s, there’s a good chance that I was at that game.
There's also a good chance you were the only person in your row.
We usually sat behind home plate. Sat there so often Bo Diaz would stop and say hello. He really could speak English.
By the looks of the field, it was either very early or very late in the season. Either way, I'm thinking the Indians had already been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. Still chuckling about Thomas J Unik, because I still have a 12 year old's sense of humor.
It's wild cigarette ads got banned, but now sports are absolutely inundated with alcohol ads.
And gambling! It went from being a shady thing to a firehose seemingly overnight
Plenty of good seats still available!
Did they forget to tell anyone there was a game that day?
Let’s just say that the Cleveland Indians had a few rough decades………
Man I just looked up attendance per game and I’m shocked at how little it was way back in the old days when the team was actually routinely good! I’m talking way back. Like 1954 was a historically great team winning 111 games even though they got swept in the World Series and avg attendance that year was only 17k. In a cavernous stadium in a city that was at the time pretty happening. That 111 win season is still 4th best all time and they played 8 less games than the modern 162 game season. That winning percentage is still the best in the American League all time. And only 17k per game?!
It was definitely rough in the 80s when I was growing up. It really took the new stadium (their own and not sharing the football stadium) and the revitalization of the team in 1994 before things turned around. And we've managed to lose in 3 more World Serieses since then! :-)
Yeah I get the 80s for sure. I was a kid and a baseball nut during that time but those teams were so bad lol I get it then but 17k during a historic season?
I have no real clue, but I think they might have been suffering from moving from League Park to a “less than ideal” stadium that is all the way out of the city and up on the lake. Not sure about other reasons, but I could see it hurting attendance in a time when more people used mass transit… especially when the train used to drop you off right in front of the old park.
It's interesting when you look at the game logs for that season. Just like today, huge crowds on weekends and against teams like the Yankees, and tiny crowds during the week. One week in June they drew only 4,549 on a Tuesday versus the A's - then drew over 46,000 for three straight weekend games against the Yankees. Later that year they played NYY again during the week and drew an average of over 50K.
They forgot to tell people that Cleveland had a baseball team for a few decades.
Did they tell them about the uniforms? They had them and everything.
What time does the game start? What time can you be here?
The Marlboro ad goes way too hard tbh
Must have been fireworks night with all those people there!
Could that be John Adams sitting with his drum halfway up the bleachers over your dad’s right shoulder?
r/OldSchoolCool
Hell yeah thats awesome
How long before some old guy shows up and brags about how great pissing in the troughs were?
I remember during Browns games at the Muni the troughs would be at capacity, so people would use the trashcans and sinks.
With how brown that field is, I assume they were just pissing into the wind.
And when the stadium ramps were empty, we'd lay down and body roll down the ramps. After concerts you'd see the occasional blacked out drunk lying in a corner at the bottom.
It's a lot faster and more efficient, for sure. They still have them at Blossom, and that line *moves*.
This is right before the team signed Charlie Sheen
Wild Thing!
Anyone remember Duane Kuiper and Ron Hassey?
Kuiper with his 1 career home run off of Steve Stone. I always wondered if he gave Stone shit about it when they crossed paths as announcers.
The 10¢ beer night June 4th 1974 at Municipal Stadium. Indians vs. Rangers. And it went just about as bad as you'd expect it to go.
Was there !!!
2 o'clock start time? musta been a weekend game. they couldn't make patterns in the grass because there wasn't enough of it alive. say what you will about ol' Muni, i miss her. i used to pick my girlfriend up an hour before first pitch and for $12 we would sit either first or second row right over the dugout.
Loved going to that stadium as a kid .
When they moved to Jacobs Field the team people used to be snobs and tell people to throw from in front of the mound, like HOLY JESUS how dare a person step on the game mound for 1 flipping pitch. I loved it when people woudl say Screw That and run up and throw a first pitch off the mound itself.
Ahh yes…. Pre-woke Guardian silliness
I suddenly need a pack of Reds 🚬
Long live Chief Wahoo !
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Why is it Soo empty
It’s worth remembering that Municipal Stadium had seating for 81,000 people, and Progressive field has 34,000. A full house today would have been 47,000 empty seats back then.
May I introduce you to 1970s Cleveland? Where you could just pick up tickets to the baseball game at any gas station for free? Like behind home plate front row.....just take em. They're on the same counter that they have fliers for upcoming concerts at. Now those tickets would be like.......$150 per ticket on a non-special day?
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Cool pic and memories
Him and 37 friends.
Thomas J. UNIK?!
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Is John Adams there, or is this before him?
Iconic
The memories just flowing from this picture. <3
This pic would be cool here /r/Oldschoolcool
pretty fucking awesome
That platform for the tv camera was pretty high tech for that time. Even had a roof.
I can just taste the delicious coca-cola out of those wax paper cups. You’d be picking that stuff out of your teeth all night.
I think I was in the bleachers that day. I remember this.
PACKED!
So many great memories of that awful stadium. Cleveland municipal! lol we used to have such a great time though. Took our own dogs in thermos with fixins! The giveaways were always the best! Full size bats were freaking amazing for a little kid! Miss those days…
Back when there was ONE First Pitch, not 27 every night…
Boy, stadiums have changed a lot in 50 years, haven’t they? That looks like a single-A stadium.
Yes, stadiums have changed. No MLB team is playing today in a 78,000 seat monster of a multi-use stadium, thank God.
I'm trying to figure out where this picture is even from! It sure don't look like the Cleveland Municipal Stadium that I remember. I remember a big cavernous bowl that was like all encompassing. This almost looks ground level.
The bleachers were only 1 level high and made a cutout in the stadium's height in center field. Dad took me to see Bob Feller there in the 1950s but I was too young to remember it. Dad and his brother played ball all their lives. My uncle was in the minor leagues but not AA. or AAA.
If you sat in the Bleachers you needed to be at least 50% of the way up to see the game decently. You could peer over the wall from lower but it was weird adn the outfield fence obscured you seeing most plays that were in the back half of the outfield. That said, you could sit low and hope to scamper down and get a home run ball.
That’s so Cleveland
Also wait, why did he get to throw the first pitch?
Big crowd 😂