Short Stuff: Cleveland’s Infamous 10-Cent Beer Night

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In 1974, the Cleveland (then Indians) baseball club held an unlimited 10 cent beer promotion to attract fans to the game. An actual riot broke out.

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0:34.4	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:35.9	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff.
0:39.2	This is yet another chapter in our ongoing coverage of Cleveland Ohio history.
0:45.4	I love it.
0:46.4	When you dive into all of the stuff we've talked about, Cleveland has come up a surprising
0:52.0	amount of times.
0:53.9	It has.
0:54.9	We've got great listeners in Cleveland.
0:57.2	Shout out to our buddy Gail Coonson or husband Mark and we sold out there and we love our
1:02.8	Clevelanders so we're not making fun of you.
1:04.9	Definitely.
1:05.9	We can't not talk about Tencent Beer Night.
1:07.9	Yeah.
1:08.9	Tencent Beer Night is a legendary night in Cleveland.
1:12.7	If you live in Cleveland you know all about this and it took place in June 1974.
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