Not in Cleveland
The announcement that LeBron James is packing his bags and heading to Miami is yet another piece of sad news for Cleveland. The Forest City has been down so long, it's started to look like up.
A security guard escorts the Indians’ Tom Hilgendorf from the field after he was hit by a chair at Ten Cent Beer Night. (Paul Tepley / AP)
Twenty-five thousand Clevelanders, a hot summer day, and all-you-can-drink beer for a dime: what could go wrong? Plenty, as it turns out. The struggling Indians hatched a plan to entice fans to Municipal Stadium, which was affectionately (or not) referred to as The Mistake on the Lake (and thanks to old Rocky Colavito, the bats weren't getting people to pony up for a ticket).
As fans got drunker and drunker, they got rowdier, culminating in the ninth inning, when a contingent stormed the field. Several players got into fistfights with rioters, and even though the Indians had managed to come from behind to tie the game, the home-plate ump demanded that Cleveland forfeit the game.
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