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When the Yankees were in town to play the Rangers, Billy and several Yankee players would always go to a topless club called Lace not far from the stadium after the games. He had a legendary temper and got into a fight one time inside the club with the big bouncers. They took Billy out a backdoor into the parking lot and smacked him around. When all was said and done, skin from Billy's ear was found stuck to the brick wall.
@@brent4723 I always thought my dad and my grandpa were fucking with me because in my brain there was no way a marshmallow salesman is a real thing. I was floored.
Fun fact: The Rangers first baseman who was in this video talking about the 20 pounds of hot dogs thrown at him is Mike Hargrove, who went on to become the manager of the Cleveland Indians in the 90s.
The video didn't mention that the while the fans were storming the field and both teams were fighting for their lives, the stadium organist was playing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
I think you mixing that up with Disco Demolition Night as Harry Carey was singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” while the fans were rioting on the field
Cleveland Municipal Stadium was colloquially known as "The Mistake by the Lake". The Cuyahoga river runs through Cleveland and empties into Lake Erie. It has caught fire (from pollution) more than once. The 1970's were a different time.
I'm from Cleveland. The Rock and Roll capital of the world (the term rock & roll started in Cleveland). Every major artist made their way to Cleveland at one point or another!
10 cent beer nights weren't uncommon in the MLB back then. The difference was this was an unlimited purchase opportunity, with 6 beers at once. And it was.Cleveland in the 70s. Their river was literally on fire.
They did pull off another ten cent beer night a few weeks later, but they were better prepared, they had additional staff and security personnel working and set strict limits of no more than 2 beers per purchase and no more than 6 purchases. This time it went off without a major incident.
Growing up in the 70’s was a crapshoot…Lawn darts, seatbelts optional, lethal fireworks, but it had its good points as well. 😀 Maybe you guys should check out Billy Martin. He was quite a character, and a big part of baseball during that time. Another really fun reaction boys! Love your commentary! 😂
@@WahooSerious I assume that you're being tongue-in-cheek, but seatbelts were and are an enormous improvement in public health, preventing so much death and suffering.
"Disco Night" in Chicago's Commiski Park was just as wild!!!!!!!! As All fans brought Disco Records to the Stadium and burned them up during abd after the game. The 70s were wild as Pirate's Pitcher Piched a No Hitter while High on LSD. As "The Bird" ( Mark Fidrich) in Detroit was crazy.....
We did Nickle Beer night here in Charleston with our MinorLeague Team(Pirates then, Riverdogs now). It was a DOUBLE HEADER... By the third inning of the Second game People were passed out all over the park, in the bathrooms (which were 3rd world nasty in the old ball park), The Concession Stands, On the Metal Bleachers with their legs and arms hanging down like a Panther in a tree). STILL the beer guy came around with trays of nickle beer. The Charleston police brought 2 "Paddy Wagons" to the park and as people would Wobble out to their cars and try to drive away, they would arrest them.. I read the next day that over 200 people were arrested out of a crowd of 4000... maybe. I was lucky enough to have ridden a Bicycle to the park that night.... Most vomit that I've EVER seen in my life. The WHOLE park smelled of old beer and Puke for a Month.... 😅😂 Our new park is one of the best in Minor league baseball and looks out over the Ashley River... And smells like green grass and hot dogs... Rick Charleston SC
The impetus for the first fight was that the runner going to first base laid out the pitcher when he wasn't blocking the base path. The runner doesn't have a right to body clock another player whenever they want.
Life long Clevelander here... Thank you guys for doing this reaction. This happened well before my time (I'm 34) but have heard about this night plenty of times but never really looked into it. Fascinating watch. Fun fact - the first baseman who had all those pounds of hotdogs thrown at him ended up being the Indians manager through the 90s which was arguably their best run as a team in their history. Hargrove also ended his career as a player for the Indians. Weird how it all came full circle. Keep up the videos! Maybe punish us Cleveland fans more with a reaction of The Drive or Red Right 88 or Bottlegate since the NFL season is closing in on us.
The 70s were a bit different, in Oklahoma in 1974 the drinking age was 16yrs for girls and 18yrs for boys, no joking weird huh, think most people have forgotten this
Billy Martin - the Ranger's Manager at the time, was a legendary scrapper. Never one to de-escalate a situation, his "taunting" of the crowd was completely in character. No limit 10 cent beer!? Oh, yeah, what could go wrong? Worse than that - even when they saw things going haywire - management did nothing.
And this wasn't even the worst Cleveland sports promotion ever. That honor (honour) belongs to the short lived Cleveland professional softball team. Seriously the dumbest idea ever and alcohol was not involved.
9:44 and 9:48 those aren’t the images from the 1974 10 cent beer night- Those are just stock images of streakers from more recent years But yeah, great reaction 😂 This game and the “Disco Demolition Night” game by the White Sox not long after will long live in hilariously infamy
This, with hindsight was absolutely hilarious, living in Ohio at the time and knowing Cleveland anybody could have told you this was a Bad Idea. Cleveland in the 70's was abysmal, the industrial Rust-Belt was being felt hard in Cleveland. It got so bad the Cuyahoga River that flowed past Cleveland actually caught on Fire, which they had a damn difficult time putting it out, now how polluted does a River have to be to actually catch fire ?
"Now the Lord can make you tumble And the Lord can make you turn The Lord can make you overflow But the Lord can't make you burn" (For those unfamiliar, from a Randy Newman song, "Burn On", about the Cuyahoga River incident, very famously used in the opening of the movie "Major League").
Just think… That 60,000 beer total was only up until about the fourth inning when the girls abandoned the trucks and everybody got free beer. That doesn’t count all the beers consumed from the fifth inning onwards. And yes, it really was two teenage girls… Believe they were about 14 or 15 serving the beer.
Mates…You should really check out another Sports Promotion Debacle from 1979 at the Chicago White Sox, Comiskey Park … The White Sox GM Bill Veeck long considered a master promoter, invited Steve Dahl ( Chicago Rock radio shock jock) to have a promotion there between games of a twi-lite doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers called Disco Demolition Night, there was a 98 cent price for admission (resulting in 50,000 people in attendance mostly teenagers & twenty somethings) where they literally blew up a huge pile of Disco Records on the Field, It turned into a complete Riot, with more than 7,000 teens storming the field stealing the bases and tearing up the field… forcing MLB to cancel game 2…..It was the most surreal experience of my life…Good Luck Jjh
My father taught at Youngstown south highschool in the 80's and 90's. Mostly a black student body they never had a baseball team until 87 or 88 they had enough kids to try it! First ( and only) game was against Youngstown Rayen, in the 3rd or 4th inning a fight broke out BOTH teams grabbed bats and that was the end of the baseball team at Youngstown south
It was Billy Martin who blew a kiss to the crowd. Given who he was, they were lucky he didn't go into the stands and start punching people. Martin was infamous for his thin skin and bad temper. Please watch a video about Disco Demolition Night.
Hey Nick and Damo, great review as always!! Billy Martin was the Rangers manager (coach) at this time, he was the one that blew the kiss to the crowd. Billy Martin is a legend in coaching, you need to see if there are some videos of him. I think he was fired and rehired by the Yankees multiple times. Just a crazy character and that kiss as well as the comment the week before the game are classic Martin. If you can find a video on him watch it, he was a one of a kind character.
The manager that blew the kiss to the fans is BILLY MARTIN. You guy have to review a video of him. One if the most insane.. IN A GOOD WAY.... craziest, most colorful managers in baseball ever. HE DIDNT CARE!!! Lol
I have the impression that this country was a lot more interesting in the 1970s. It was not necessarily "fun and games," as you can see here. More than that, for people growing up at that time, things were a little sinister. Don't think of the same kind of violence that plagued high schools in the '80s and '90s. There was such a lack of supervision of young people that they got into other kinds of trouble, and... it's hard to describe. I didn't live through it, but from what I've read and seen, things got both wild and creepy after the optimism of 1960s counterculture wore off. If you read the superb graphic memoir "My Friend Dahmer" by Derf Backderf (yes, it's his nom de plume), you'll see what I mean. Backderf went to high school with future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and the zeitgeist was important to understand what was happening.
We have a saying "OIC" Only in Cleveland. LOL. But it's funny there's also "Only in New York" and "Only in Florida" vids that are also so amazingly accurate too
The initial brawl started because the batter was running to first base and about to be tagged by the pitcher but he absolutely CLOBBERED the pitcher (presumably to get the pitcher to drop the ball) but it was SUPER excessive even by 70's standards. He ran inside the baseline and leaned in with his shoulder and elbow and sent the pitcher flying, which prompted the first and second baseman to come down and fight him, which prompted the Rangers to charge out of the home dugout which was right there in front of first base. It was a combination of all these things that led to that getting out of hand so fast. Billy Martin, the Rangers manager that night, the one that blew the kiss to the crowd and ordered his team to charge the fan with bats...hoooooooooooo man what a character. Very much a doing-things-his-own-way hothead. Can't recommend enough that y'all learn about him. Especially his relationship with then-Yankees owner George Steinbrenner when he was Yankees manager, then fired, then Yankees manager, then fired, then Yankees manager, then fired, then Yankees manager, then fired, then Yankees manager, then fired again. Seriously, dude was fired 5 times by Steinbrenner.
Its not that crazy, when I was in college (UT) in the 70's. the 'K-Jays (Knoxville Bluejays) had $0.25 Beer Nights at least once a summer, it was a rowdy crowd, a lot of fun. Naked streaking at football & baseball games was a big thing in the early 70's, lol.
The impressive thing is that the Indians had ANOTHER ten cent beer night scheduled for like three weeks later. And they did not cancel it. It actually went off (mostly) fine. The problem was clearly the Rangers...
The player who had hotdogs thrown at him, Mike “The Human Rain Delay” Hargrove aka Grover, went on to play for Cleveland and was our beloved manager during the 90s.
You could do a video just on Billy Martin, the Rangers manager in this video, but more known for his career as the Yankees manager. If any manager in baseball history would blow a kiss to the drunken crowd, it would be him.
The sock-streaker is smart (but woulda been smarter with two): if’n the security guards get him, he’s got a _slightly_ higher chance of slippin’ their grips and running for an extra few yards before getting his ass pounded into the field! 🤪
You need to check out Billy Martin. He was a hot mess. He was the coach of the Yankees. He loved to off umpires m, owners or players. My dad was a big time Yankee fan. I got into baseball because of Billy Martin tantrums. I personality think he was the best coach the Yankees every had.
What happened in the 1st game that led to the fight? A player slid into base and took out the baseman. In retaliation the pitcher threw 90mph fastballs at the heads of the next couple of batters.
On the play that started the rival, the pitcher was fielding a bunt and the runner went out of his way to run over the pitcher. Which is against the rules and poor sportsmanship.
Billy Martin, the Rangers manager, was known throughout his career (Yankee player, Yankee manager, Oakland As manager--and an excellent manager, too) for being feisty, combative and even getting into fist fights. He was fearless--trying to fight Reggie Jackson, a great Yankee player when Billy was the Yankee manager, in the Yankee dugout. He is worth a video of his own by you guys.
As for the first fight in Texas, pitchers are the most important players, much like quarterbacks in American football. What the Rangers batter did was a dick move. He should have just accepted the tag and taken the out. Instead he knocked the pitcher over, even though the pitcher wasn't blocking the runner. In the 70s, if an infielder or the catcher were blocking the path of a runner (waiting for a ball to arrive, for example) it was perfectly legal truck them as hard as you could. So baserunners did. But you don't do this to pitchers, especially when he's not even blocking him.
Also, the picture near the end of the video, of the Rangers with the blond guy with glasses and no hat - that's Jeff Burroughs, the Rangers player that inadvertently kicked off the actual riot. And yes, Billy Martin was a baseball legend. Do him (and Yogi Berra) soon!
Your reactions and theorizing of the conversation that occurred between the father and son streakers had me laughing so hard I was crying! Check out the 1979 Chicago White Sox “Disco Demolition Night” fiasco for another great fan fiasco.
