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Aubrey Hirsch@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social |
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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@ajwitz.bsky.social
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This and Disco Demolition Night are two of the most absurd baseball-promotion-induced riots to grace the sport.
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Erik Inglis
@allthebeset.bsky.social
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from the radio broadcast of the game:
x.com/Reflog_18/st...
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Vera
@faethverity.bsky.social
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Thank you for this snippet of Cleveland history!
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Csimm
@csimmons21.bsky.social
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Where are the historical reenactments of this?
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🇵🇸hungry🏳️🌈hungry🏳️⚧️harpy🇺🇦
@the17thqueen.bsky.social
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totes totes worth it 😘👌
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@mcmjolnir.bsky.social
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Oh I wish this could be dramatized as a The Purge style horror/comedy.
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Jerry-ATX
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A buddy just wrote a book about this. He’s up in Cleveland selling copies right now and was on a couple different news programs yesterday.
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@staubly.bsky.social
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Wow! A real life moment topping the fictional WKRP In Cincinnati show turkey drop!
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Andy Pearlman
@apearlma.bsky.social
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this was absolutely fantastic
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Aubrey Hirsch
@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
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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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Granny Weatherwax
@esmeweatherwax.bsky.social
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After reading this thread, I said to my 20 year old son, "have you heard of 10 cent beer night?" And he had not, but he said, "that sounds like a terrible idea." I enjoyed filling him in on the details. Thank you.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲
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I read this thread this morning and it cracked my shit up. I had heard of this before, but didn't know the details.
But then I read the Wikipedia article, LOL they did a Nickle Beer Day before this and a 10 Cent Beer Night PART II after.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cen...
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C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social
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Ten cent beer night is in the pantheon of absolutely bugnuts historical sporting events along with the 1904 Olympic marathon
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hummus woodsworth
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yesssss baseball lore yesssss
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Tim 🌱
@callmetim.bsky.social
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Step 1: Sell Beer for $.10 Step 2: Step 3: Profit Who could have foretold what step 2 would become.
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Marius Loots
@mariusloots.bsky.social
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When will the movie be released?
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AndrewM
@acmccallum.bsky.social
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There's a great episode of The Dollop on this!
youtu.be/gHnxI0HjMjQ?...
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Brandy Schillace
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You get a follow for this.
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Fuzzy Mike
@fuzzymike.bsky.social
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🫡 Rusty Torres, on the field during the Washington Senators riot, ten cent beer night, AND disco demolition night
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@deeners.bsky.social
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This is amazing 😂
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mo_wilk
@mo-wilk.bsky.social
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Following for this thread! This ranks right up there with Doc Ellis! Thanks!
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Erin, STEM Librarian in Texas somewhere
@cybrarerin.bsky.social
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There are tshirts.
gvartwork.com/products/cle...
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Mad Meson
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I grew up in the Cleveland area and this event was taught to me as a basic part of American history, like Gettysburg or the moon landing.
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Mrs Schwarzski
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Both terrifying and outstanding.
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FrankGrimesOfficial
@bnlngstrth.bsky.social
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Listen to the @thedollop.bsky.social about Ten Cent Beer Night too!
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George Voinovich Manuscript
@bsakat.bsky.social
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Thank you for bringing to light this important part of my homeland's history.
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AGuyinNJ
@aguyinnj.bsky.social
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Well written. Wouldn't mind follow ups on total damage costs and so on, but doing it again later that season says a lot.
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@casualobserver.bsky.social
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cen...
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P R Manning
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"Tim Russert, then a student at the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, attended the game. "I went with $2 in my pocket", he recalled. "You do the math." "
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Craig Schaefer
@craigschaefer.bsky.social
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That's both a follow and an addition to my "stuff to work into a book someday" notebook right there.
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Berdawn
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Thank you!!!
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DJ Mac
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The Astros were so bad in those days that we had nickel beer night and free beer in the unlikely case of an Astros homer (“former”). In the 80s they raised it to a quarter.
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Mark
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I feel bad for those concession workers as a former hockey concession stand worker. I would have let them pour their own at the trucks too.
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