Cleveland Stadium Last Year 1993
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- These are some scenes from an Aug. 14, 1993 at the old Cleveland Stadium which was slated for demolition the next year. Nolan Ryan is interviewed and Juan Gonzalez and Pudge Rodriquez are shown.
This just about made me cry. I was at this game and the following day when Ryan pitched. I didn't even realize it until I googled it on baseball reference. This old place was truly a thing of beauty. The days when you could walk up to the gate by a ticket and sit where ever you wanted to. God I miss this place. Someday when I'm 80 I'll look back on my life and remember some of my best memories will be my Dad taking to me Indians games in the 80's at this place.
I miss this place more than words can say.
This was the best stadium in baseball. If you don’t believe me, ask Ricky Vaughn and Willie Mays Hays
Thank you for posting this. The childhood memories come roaring back.
Saw a lot of games there. It was always beautiful to me. I was horribly biased but college friends took me to Reds games in Riverfront and I thought that place had none of the atmosphere of Cleveland Stadium, even with much more fans. Anybody remember buying general admission in Cleveland and moving down to field boxes by the 5th inning? Got quite a few foul balls. That was heaven...
Thanks for posting this. The last Indians game I went to at the 'Mistake' was about a week before this video was shot (vs. KC)
Not even joking, I was at the game the night before this. I remember it because Jim Thome hit like the third home run of his career right toward us. I even looked it up to confirm it. This is cool stuff!
Spectacular video. I wish I had gone to some of these stadiums, including Tiger Stadium and memorial stadium.
AWESOME footage... thanks for posting! I was actually in attendance at this game. It was Nolan Ryan's final start in Cleveland, so it was a packed house. I sat in the upper deck, third base side in the last section before the bleachers. Very hot day... not much of a breeze either. I miss that old dump.
Municipal Stadium wasn't slated for demolition the year after this video. It was actually demolished in late 1996- early 1997. The Cleveland Browns played at Municipal Stadium through the 1995 season until they left for Baltimore. 1993 was just the final season the Indians played there. I do love the video. Excellent footage. Watching it with the full screen made me feel like I was at the Stadium. I watch this video frequently when I want to reminisce and remember the feeling of being at the Stadium.
Don Straley Remember not being able to see the field until you walked up one of the ramps, then it was like the emerald green grass just opened up right in front of you? For all its faults, this was a damn cool stadium to watch a baseball game!
I remember that. I don't know why they made that comment about the Stadium being destroyed after the season. I do remember not being able to see the field until you walked up one of those ramps, but being able to see that emerald green grass. What an awesome view. It was one damn cool place to watch a game.
Lived in the Cleveland area (1960s-1970s) until post college. I swear, nobody I know ever referred to it as "Municipal". It was just "the Stadium" to us.
I was at the May 26th gave vs the Rangers where Conseco had that HR bounce off his head and over the fence. That had to be the craziest thing I have ever seen at a baseball game.
Loved this stadium brings back memories
@biggswede This is not correct. The Indians left the Stadium for Jacobs Field at the end of the 1993 season. However the Browns played at Municipal Stadium until the end of the 1995 season, when Art Modell moved them to Baltimore. It was not demolished until 1996. It was slowly demolished, not imploded, so it was standing for quite a while. There is a You Tube video of a fire during the demolition process in December of 96.
That is not where "Major League" was filmed.
They filmed that in Milwaukee
I miss going to the Indians Games when I was 8 years old. attending games in St. Louis is ok butu Not the same as the old Cleveland stadium.
Nice footage! Many childhood memories at that place for both tribe & Browns games.
I remember standing at that exact spot (3:18) and getting autographs. Great footage that honestly makes me year up a bit.
Didn't get demo next year Browns used it for 3 more seasons before moving to Baltimore then was tear down
Wow, really cool to remember what it was like to watch baseball at twilight in Municipal Stadium.
interesting rangers were doing a 1 pitch batting practice then switch batter
wow thank you for posting, Cleveland Stadium lives on in my dreams
$1.25 downtown parking all day
Parking 1.25 all day
those where the days
Damn, this place was fucking huuuuge.
@biggswede Sorry. I completely missed your OOPS! post. Oh well. Great footage anyway and it brings back many, many memories.!!
It wasn't a sellout?
Actually, this was not Nolan's final start. He started the Sunday afternoon game that I was at. This game was either Friday or Saturday. Great footage nonetheless. I too miss that place.
OOPS! forgot the browns played there till they left after the '95 season. indians had left for jacobs field at the start of hte '94 season tho.
BTW did you have special permissions to get this video?
one comment tho... the date at the beginning says 1995 and the date of the footage is 1993. stadium had been demolished by '95.
The stadium was still used by the browns until model moved them after the 95 season. Stadium demolitiion didn't start until 96 or 97.
This is excellent footage. Thanks for posting. It was my 22nd birthday lol. I'm a lifelong Clevelander so I really appreciate this. I miss that old place even though the Jake/Pro is pretty damn nice.
whoops! you're right... don't know what I was thinking 'cause the browns finished out the '95 season there.
sterroids bubbling out of the ears of pudge, juan, and julio at around 4:15. the reaction to juan's "super blast" was chilling...
first one was at county stadium in milwaukee and the second one was at camden yards
Really young Pudge Rodiguez there.
Yep. It sure was
They actually did film for "Major League" at this stadium. I know because I worked there for 5 years. ( Did the fireworks) The movie never used any of the shots filmed in Cleveland as the old stadium looked really bad. I have many great memories from those five years!
1gallimaufry Major league 1 was filmed in Milwaukee. Major league 2 was filmed in Baltimore. Now, 'The Babe' starring John Goodman was filmed here.
Sherpaful As I said in my original comment, they DID film for the movie but the stadium looked so crappy they did not use the footage. The night I was shooting a fireworks show in the parking lot was the night they planned on using the fireworks as a backdrop for some of their footage. The film helicopter was interrupting our setup all day long. After all the hassle you can imagine my disappointment when we learned that no images taken that night would be used in the movie. Trust me when I say that they did some filming at the lakefront, I was there!
Hard to understand how the stadium "looking bad" wouldn't fit the theme of the movie perfectly.
I heard that Major league was filmed at Comisky park in Chicago.
Perpetual.Art Major League was filmed at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Opening credits and a couple exterior shots were filmed in Cleveland.
Juan Gone!
wow so cool..thanks for this
As much of a dump the place was, i still miss the old "Dawg Pound". I went to 3 Browns games and 2 Indians games in that place.
This place hosted many a losing Indians team.
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