Couple of footnotes: of the thousands of people that swarmed the field, there were only 9 arrests and not one of them spent any time behind bars. There were 25,154 fans that night. On June 5, the same two teams met again but with the beer back at its regular price of 65 cents (standard at the time), only 8,101 showed up.
For the uninitiated, the interviewees in order were Dave Duncan (CLE), Duke Sims (TXR), Dick Bosman (CLE), Billy Martin (TXR) and Jeff Burroughs (TXR).
I thought that was hilarious coming from Billy. It was such a kick growing up with the Rangers - I went to a couple of their games in 1972, and lots of games in the mid to late ‘70s. I want one of the old hats like Billy is wearing. I saw some great players - early Rangers like Frank White, Jim Sundberg, Jeff Burroughs, and Toby Harrah, and other players like Reggie Jackson and Louis Tiant. Good times.
Verne Lundqvist also called the Kick Six - the legendary Auburn vs Alabama college football game in 2013 where Chris Davis ran a field goal kick that came up short all the way back to the other end zone with no time left for the win, although his call is overshadowed by Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett’s. And just like at Ten-Cent Beer Night, fans stormed the field at that game too.
i remember when doug radar was the manager the rangers had a bat night and gave everyone an actual bat - i don't think there were any incidents but the report was that the crowd banged the fool out of those bats to make noise and the Rangers won 1-0...I went to the next bat night and they gave everyone certificates to redeem for their bat at a local grocery store
I'm in Cleveland and we used to do a regulation size bat night for a long time, until something violent happened, so they turned it into mini bat night, which pretty much was a billy club, same result
@@surferbri5346 Back when the Rangers were the Seantors, they used give bats to the kids at DC Stadium and they banged them on the metal stands, the ones that bounced up and down at Redskin game on the 3rd base line and you heard the boom, boom, when they had a rally.
Now one fan throws a plastic "bottle" and 7 cameras record it, umps halt the game & its national news. Not saying that fans aren't unruly but the difference between going to games in the 1970's and now are night & day. If they only had cameras for the stuff that used to happen back then.
An awful lot of people being a "little too drunk" is comparable to saying that the megathrust earthquakes that occurred December 26th, 2004 and March 11th, 2011 produced a "little wave" action along adjacent coasts.
216 South side. We always took m-80's or h-100's to the games in the 70's. 1000 people max in a 70,000+ capacity stadium. Empty. Upper deck yellow wood seats, $3. Anyone who was really there in the day knows this was common. BOOM! Echoes all around. Nobody ever got hurt. Good times for all!👊
