Frank53
That was the name, “Municipal Stadium”. It held over 72,000 and many time the Browns had over 80,000 there. One of the last games that the Indians played there, I was at, with only 4,500 attending. The Jake has done much better until the last few years.
FRANK53,
Would your favorite player on the Tribe then happen to be Rockey Calivetto? He was mine too but I still stick for um.
laz57
that would be the case Laz. A friend of mine from around the corner was a big Colavito fan as well and we would check out his stats after school. I was p.o’d when they traded him and the Indians has the makings of a team. SOmewhere I still have an old copy of a baseball mag with a photo of Sam McDowell on the cover with a catchy headline “Sudden Sam -Tribe’s Medicine Man”.
They had a couple of great arms on that team including McDowell, Sonny Seibert and the ageless wonder - Luis Tiant.
AFter Rocky came and went in KC, I stayed with the A’s and have every since - now in my 39th year as an A’s fan.
Having grown up in New Jersey, however, I used to get the Yankee games on the WPIX tv and on the radio. I was listening to the Yankees in my garage on a Saturday afternoon and I forget who they were playing, but the Yanks were running out of pitchers, so they brought in the Rock in relief. He threw shutout ball, and might have had a strike out. He had a gun, that’s for sure.
In any event, here’s the Indians trivia question, which should be a pushover for a guy who remembers Rocky Colavito:
If you lived in Cleveland during the period of time we are discussing - from who would you buy your rags?