This piece has virtually nothing to do with the Dodgers, but I figured a little levity was in order as we reminisce about the worst promotional event ever in the history of baseball. The late Tim Russert, former host of NBC’s Meet the Press, was a law school student in Cleveland in the mid-seventies. He summed up the 1974 Cleveland Indians promotion, “10 cent beer night” with an extremely telling quote:
”It was something we could have all predicted. l went with 2 dollars in my pocket. You do the math.”
There have been a few promotions that went hay-wire and resulted in forfeits.