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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Withers

Powder kegs: 50 years ago, 10-cent beers helpd turn a Cleveland baseball game into a bloody riot

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Beer flowed and a little blood and bruises followed. There was some baseball played in between.

On a warm spring night along Lake Erie five decades ago, a well-intended promotion meant to attract fans for the perpetually lousy Cleveland Indians turned ugly and triggered a booze-fueled riot now known as one of the most notorious events in American sports history.

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