Cleveland Municipal Stadium

[tugger]

Cleveland Stadium was built by the same firm that built YS.

Nobody was sad to see it go.

[The House That Ruth Built]

It brings to mind the prerenovated Yankee Stadium.

But it also gives an idea of what old YS would have looked like around the same time, if it hadn't been renovated. What a dump, although from all accounts, old YS was in even worse shape.

Yeah, your right. Although many hated how the rennovations on YS came out, they were a nessecety. Just compare Cleveland Stadium ca. 1993 to Yankee Stadium ca. 2008.

[alpineinc]

Construction, 1931.

[mn8791]

Football

Did any of you attend football games at the Stadium? It seems like there wouldn't have been a good seat in the house for football. The seats on the 50 yard line are so far from the field! The only seats close to the field would have been in the corners and end zones. Or did they bring in some temporary seats along the sidelines?

[lollar]

You are correct mn...

The football field was very far from the stands unless you were in the open end zone (the old dog pound), or the enclosed section (near the backstop of baseball's home plate).

Watching in the lower deck was tough because you weren't as high up and the sightlines were tough. The upper deck was fine but you were so high up the players looked like ants. The games I saw were in the pound or lower deck near the end zones. If you were in the lower deck by an end zone, between the low sight lines and all the players on the field, you couldn't see the other side of the 50 yard line.

I don't recall them ever bringing in any additional seating.

[RoastedPeanut]

Construction, 1931.

Wait a second.. Rt. 2 was a rail road?

[tugger]

Wait a second.. Rt. 2 was a rail road?

Those track are still there.

[EdTarbusz]

Rt 2 runs parallel to the railroad tracks.

[Digitalballparks]

We put up a 21 page full screen gallery of the ballpark on www.digitalballparks.com with photographs from a guy named Robert K. Shoop.

He did an excellent job of capturing this ballpark during a game from every angle along with several other older ballparks like Memorial Stadium.

[Greg B.]

We put up a 21 page full screen gallery of the ballpark on www.digitalballparks.com with photographs from a guy named Robert K. Shoop.

He did an excellent job of capturing this ballpark during a game from every angle along with several other older ballparks like Memorial Stadium.

I can't find the link. Can you give a direct link?

[soup]

I can't find the link. Can you give a direct link?

http://www.digitalballparks.com/American/Cleveland1.html

[DaBigMotor]

Guys, can we get a side by side comparisson and maybe an overlay comparisson of old Cleveland Stadium with Cleveland Browns stadium, since it was built on the same spot?

[RoastedPeanut]

Rt 2 runs parallel to the railroad tracks.

Ya know.. It's been a long time since I've just gone to E. 9th heading from the east.. A very long time.. I've found myself in the last few years taking dead man's curve, so i can't really recall from memory what lies ahead.. I love watching the tailgating on channel 19 coming from no man's land at the muni lot..

[tugger]

I put together a whole time-lapse photo thing of the demolition and construction of the new stadium for the Plain Dealer's special section in '99. It was pretty cool and I have it stashed away somewhere. The new stadium is on exactly the same spot as the old one, I can tell you that.

[DaBigMotor]

I put together a whole time-lapse photo thing of the demolition and construction of the new stadium for the Plain Dealer's special section in '99. It was pretty cool and I have it stashed away somewhere. The new stadium is on exactly the same spot as the old one, I can tell you that.

Can you post that here?