Ten-Cent Beer Night in Cleveland on June 4, 1974, was a promotion — at a Cleveland Indians vs. Texas Rangers game — that led to the biggest riot by spectators in the history of sporting events in North America. The 1974 baseball season was significant for many other events as well. In that year, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, the Oakland A's went for their third World Series title in a row, Tommy John surgery was performed for the first time, and the fiery Billy Martin set out to turn the Texas Rangers into a winning team. This was a pivotal period in baseball history where old-school and modern baseball collided.
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April 2
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina. My ebook The American Civil War and the World: The Role of Governments, Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens is for anyone interested in history. Even if you've already read a number of Civil War books, this one covers people and countries on almost every continent that were involved in the conflict. There were soldiers from all over Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Africa, Australia, and Asia that came to America to fight, the majority of them for the Union. The book also covers Bermuda’s and the Bahamas’ big impact on Confederate blockade running; the Confederate spy ring in Canada; battles and incidents in France, Brazil, and elsewhere internationally; the fate of former soldiers after the war in Mexico and Brazil; and much more. There is even a chapter about baseball in the Civil War and how the game was exported worldwide.
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George Washington crossed the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26, 1776, in the Revolutionary War, in a surprise military action resulting in attacking the Hessians on the morning of December 26, 1776.
Washington in defeating the Hessian troops showed that he could defeat some of the best troops on the British side. This was a turning point in the war in that morale was very low at that time.
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Nobuo Fujita was the Japanese pilot who conducted not only a bombing raid against Brookings, Oregon, in World War II but also a peace mission there many years after the war. Woven throughout this history of Imperial Japan and World War II in the Pacific are the events in Fujita’s life that led to his bombing mission.
During World War II in 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered Fujita, an experienced and dependable pilot, to firebomb a forest in southern Oregon to cause tremendous damage. In one of the very little-known incidents of the war, Fujita became the only enemy combatant in history to bomb the United States mainland.
Long after the war, in the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation, the Brookings, Oregon, Junior Chamber of Commerce decided to invite none other than Nobuo Fujita to serve as the guest of honor at the 1962 Azalea Festival. Thunderstruck by this invitation, Fujita had no idea if it was genuine or possibly a trap to arrest him for war crimes.
Having escaped danger unscathed on numerous occasions, an older Fujita prepared to embark on a much different mission. This trip to Brookings would be the exact opposite of his bombing mission in 1942. Fujita prepared to apologize to the people of the town for the bombing. He would bring his centuries-old samurai sword with him as a gift to show that he was truly sorry. Before he departed from home, Japanese officials warned that there would be nothing they could do to help him if the locals in Oregon were hostile. Nobuo Fujita’s life is a moving story about war and reconciliation.
Braddock's Defeat
In July 1755, the disastrous Braddock Expedition in Pennsylvania by the British and colonial Americans against France and its Indian allies in the French and Indian War culminated in the battle known as “Braddock’s Defeat.” Although the British army under General Edward Braddock greatly outnumbered its French and Indian foe, the latter proved the effectiveness of fighting from behind cover. This battle was one of the biggest Indian victories over whites in the history of North America. It was only surpassed by the Indian victory over the United States in Ohio, known as “St. Clair’s Defeat” in 1791. Despite being on the losing side at Braddock’s Defeat, George Washington handled himself admirably and gained valuable military experience in this battle and in the rest of the war.
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Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, during the Civil War
On June 19, 1864, an epic naval battle—sometimes called the Battle of Cherbourg—was fought between the Confederate warship Alabama and the Union warship Kearsarge off the coast of France. Many French spectators watched the naval battle from the shore. This battle inspired artists, and there are depictions of it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Philadelphia Art Museum. You will find much more on this topic and many others where the American Civil War affected the entire world in my ebook The American Civil War and the World: The Role of Governments, Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens by Daniel R. Grimes.
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Ten-Cent Beer Night
Ten-Cent Beer Night at a game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers in Cleveland on June 4, 1974, was a promotion that went horribly wrong. It turned into the biggest riot at a sporting event in the history of North America. In the Texas Rangers dugout that night, was their manager, Billy Martin. The Rangers first baseman, Mike Hargrove, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting in person, would later become very well known to Cleveland baseball fans. Longtime Cleveland fans will also remember that this period was the beginning for the drummer John Adams in the bleachers that would last decades at both Cleveland Municipal Stadium and later at Jacobs Field.
In addition to Ten-Cent Beer Night, my book covers the exciting and gritty world of major league baseball in the 1970s before it became corporate. Great players like Hank Aaron and Reggie Jackson and the incredible story of Ron LeFlore are highlighted. Salaries were relatively low for most players. Tickets and ballpark concessions were fairly inexpensive, and there was plenty of passion from players and fans. On occasion, there were cheap beer nights in the 1970s to lure in fans. It was a great time for beer and baseball.
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The Revolution begins
On the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began in Massachusetts. Nobody knows for sure which side fired the first shot, but it changed the world forever.
Tensions between England and the American colonies had been brewing since the Stamp Act Crisis in 1765, the Boston Massacre in 1770, and the Boston Tea Party in 1773. When the British retaliated for the destruction of the tea by closing the port of Boston and sending a large standing army to the city, war appeared imminent. All that was needed was a triggering event which occurred on the Lexington Green.
The Americans faced very steep odds in the war against England. The British had arguably the strongest army in the world and the most powerful navy. Tens of thousands of Hessian mercenaries from the German states—regarded as some of the best soldiers in Europe—supplemented the British side and terrified Americans. In addition, the British had Indian allies on the frontier regions, such as the Iroquois and Cherokees, as well as many American Loyalists or Tories who remained loyal to England.
However, in favor of the Americans was the huge geographic territory the British would have to conquer. Despite the British having control of many coastal cities, the Americans did not give up.
George Washington proved to be a worthy adversary to England, while in the South, Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," waged effective guerilla warfare against the British. French support for the American side proved to be decisive in the Yorktown campaign in 1781.
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The American Revolution and the Hessians
As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution begins, it should be remembered that tens of thousands of German Hessians fought on the British side. The Hessians were among the best trained and most feared soldiers in all of Europe. They had a big impact on the war from 1776 in New York to 1781 in Yorktown. They were mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. When George Washington famously crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776 to attack the Hessians, it turned the tide of the war. Many Hessians stayed in America and Canada after the conflict. No study of the American Revolution would be complete without learning about them. To read more about this subject, including some never-before published material about individual Hessians, buy my book The Hessians and the American Revolution: The Whole Story by going to the STORE page.