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Jeremy @floregonian.com [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

Check out this incredible thread on Cleveland’s first Ten Cent Beer Night. Click through to this last post and scroll up and you’ll see the whole thread.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Cleveland held a second Ten Cent Beer Night promotion later that summer, and this time had a two-beer limit. #NeverForget

THE END!

(Did it work? Did it thread?)

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Many, many people were injured (including Cleveland’s relief pitcher and two of the umpires). Drunk fans WRECKED the field, stole all the bases, and caused a decent amount of damage to the stadium,

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

The players on both teams) fought through the mob in groups and retreated through the dugouts. The umpires had to call the game off because the riot continued even after the players evacuated the field.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

Afraid that the drunk mob would actually kill the Rangers, Cleveland’s manager sent the Guardians players out armed with baseball bats to fight their own fans, who were throwing folding chairs, rocks, and lit firecrackers at the Rangers.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

Of course, drunk Cleveland was like “let’s fucking gooooooooooo” and the fans POURED onto the field. They threw glass bottles, armed themselves with chains, knives, and weapons they LITERALLY CREATED FROM PIECES OF STADIUM SEATS THEY WERE RIPPING APART. The mob surrounded the Rangers players.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

Texas’ manager had pretty much had enough of Cleveland’s shit at this point and sent his bench onto the field to defend his outfielder. Some of them brought bats.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

The Guardians tied the game up in the bottom of the ninth, and here’s where the shit really hit the fan. A teenager ran onto the field and tried to steal the cap from a Ranger’s outfielder.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

Oh, also, long before this point, the crowd was drinking so fast, they couldn’t get beer to the concession stands quickly enough. The workers became so overwhelmed, they started letting drunk fans refill their cups directly from the industrial beer trucks behind the outfield fence. 10/10 GREAT idea!

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

By the 7th inning, anyone who wasn’t a belligerent, drunken asshat abandoned the stadium, leaving behind a crowd made up entirely of your dad’s worst, most intoxicated buddies.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Cleveland fans pelted the Rangers first basemen with hot dogs. Someone almost hit him with an empty gallon jug of Thunderbird! Fans threw LIT FIRECRACKERS into the Ranger’s dugout. This was Cleveland sports fandom at its most Cleveland, folks.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Needless to say, people got absolutely hammered. Early on in the game, a woman ran on-field and tried to kiss one of the umpires. A father-son team jumped into the outfield and mooned the crowd. A streaker stole second base.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Beers were 10 motherfucking cents. (That’s 62 cents in today’s money. Can you imagine???) You could only buy 6 beers at a time, but there was NO LIMIT to how many beers you could buy during the course of the game. Bad idea, Cleveland!!

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Ten Cent Beer Night, June 4 1974, was a promotion to drum up attendance by baseball fans at Cleveland Stadium. The Guardians were playing the Texas Rangers. (If you google this, the Cleveland Guardians had a different name then, but it was shitty and anyway we’re not dead-naming during Pride Month!)

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Or this one again?

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Do I reply to this one next?

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

It’s June 4, 2024, and today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important days in Cleveland history. TEN CENT BEER NIGHT. If you don’t know about Ten Cent Beer Night, please please please read this. This is my first thread. It will be long, but it will absolutely 100% be worth it.

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