largest attendance ever?

[dreifort]

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29473r.jpg

Telling's Strollers vs. Hanna's Cleaners, Brookside Stadium 1914
Estimating that 50,000 to 75,000 spectators would attend, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper proclaimed that this amateur championship baseball game would draw "the greatest crowd...ever assembled for any event in Cleveland." The actual attendance of the game was closer to 100,000 people. The Strollers beat the other Cleveland team 8-3 in the third and deciding game (see photo above) and went on to compete for the national championship.

[csh19792001]

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29473r.jpg

Telling's Strollers vs. Hanna's Cleaners, Brookside Stadium 1914
Estimating that 50,000 to 75,000 spectators would attend, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper proclaimed that this amateur championship baseball game would draw "the greatest crowd...ever assembled for any event in Cleveland." The actual attendance of the game was closer to 100,000 people. The Strollers beat the other Cleveland team 8-3 in the third and deciding game (see photo above) and went on to compete for the national championship.

Awesome.

Largest ML crowd I ever heard of (actual, not estimated), was a Sox-Yankees doubleheader in the late 30's- 84,000 people in Yankee Stadium.

[dreifort]

where was I at that game? let's see.... $10 to park near stadium...about 20-30,000 cars? hmm... chi-ching!! $$$

[RuthMayBond]

Indians had a crowd of 86,563 in '54

[Donnybrook @ Second base]

93,000 or so were on hand to honor Campy in LA.

[RuthMayBond]

93,000 or so were on hand to honor Campy in LA.93,103 but was that an actual game or just a tribute?

[trosmok]

93,103 but was that an actual game or just a tribute?

On May 7, 1959 the largest crowd ever in the LA Coliseum came out for Roy Campanella Day. Sandy Koufax pitched the LA Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the New York Yankees in an exhibition game. Will try to find the box score, but like most exhibitions, they are a little tougher to locate. :atthepc

Rats! I just came across a different source that said the Yankees won 6-2.
Any help?

[smithkp]

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29473r.jpg

Telling's Strollers vs. Hanna's Cleaners, Brookside Stadium 1914
Estimating that 50,000 to 75,000 spectators would attend, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper proclaimed that this amateur championship baseball game would draw "the greatest crowd...ever assembled for any event in Cleveland." The actual attendance of the game was closer to 100,000 people. The Strollers beat the other Cleveland team 8-3 in the third and deciding game (see photo above) and went on to compete for the national championship.

Does anyone know where I can get copies of this picture and/or others from this day? These would make cool pictures to have on my wall.

Thanks.

[RuthMayBond]

Does anyone know where I can get copies of this picture and/or others from this day? These would make cool pictures to have on my wall.

Thanks.Let me know if you find out, just gives me shivers looking at it

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Here are the attendance figures for the thee games at the L.A. Coliseum during the 1959 World Series:

Game 3: 92,394
Game 4: 92,650
Game 5: 92,706

[Ubiquitous]

Brookside parks unusual layout allowed for a great number of attendees. The game in 1914 wasn't even the highest attended game at that park. A game a year later which was merely a semipro national semifinal game between Omaha Panhandlers and Cleveland White Auto drew 100,000 fans on October 10th 1915.

[Ubiquitous]

As for highest attendance that honor goes to a couple of Olympic baseball games. The first one in Germany in 1936 which featured the German baseball team playing against a bunch of american olympiads from other sports. It drew 108,000 people but was a bust, with many of the attendees leaving before the game was over. The other Olympic game was in Australia and 114,000 people saw that game, though many of the attendees were simply arriving to see Track and Field which was the next event in the stadium. The other 100,000+ game in baseball history was in Japan in 1934 when the All-Stars toured Japan.

[Ubiquitous]

Does anyone know where I can get copies of this picture and/or others from this day? These would make cool pictures to have on my wall.

Thanks.


I would check with the newspaper in Cleveland. They might very well have a copy of it or at the very least can tell you who was the photographer or in which collection this photo is in. Many of the old time photos have been donated to various libraries and museums and they will generally sell you a print.

[Ubiquitous]

That particular photo appears to be housed at the Library of Congress, which is also online. If you click the properties of that photo you will get a link to where it is housed. you will also find that it has many photos of old fields.

[Ubiquitous]

Here is White Auto vs Johsntown, PA.

A week later White Auto would play their 100,000 attendee game.

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29200/6a29249r.jpg

[Ubiquitous]

Here is that October 10th game that drew 100,000 fans, notice that they put it at an attendance of 115,000

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29457r.jpg

[Ubiquitous]

A different angle to the same October 10th game.
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29200/6a29257r.jpg

[Ubiquitous]

Final picture of same game a little bit closer to home plate.
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29465r.jpg

[JohnDog]

I am actually helping our local city councilman to get this game and these photographs recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

The largest crowd is the October 10, 1915 Championship Game at Brookside Park (Stadium) in Cleveland, OH (next to the Cleveland Zoo). The game between White Auto (Cleveland, OH) and Omaha Luxus (Omaha, NE) is believed to have had between 100,000 and 115,000 fans in attendence. It was orchestrated by the Cleveland Baseball Federation (founded in 1910 by a group of business owners to promote adult baseball) which is the oldest amature baseball organization in the country.

These photos can be found on the Library of Congress website at "loc.gov" ...just put in the search the words "Brookside" "White" "Auto" and you will get 3 different pictures. You can also search for the 1914 photo which might look a little better. The digital images are available right on the "loc.gov" site, but you'll need someone to print them for you as they are about 7.3" tall and 38" wide. (I tried to attache the photos, but couldn't)

We are in the process of getting tow of the images produced and they will soon be displayed at the "Baseball As America" exhibit (the traveling National Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit) at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.

There was an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer written back on March 5, 2007 that gives a few of the details.

....The story was on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer the day after the game as well. Here's an excerpt from the article...

“The great bowl at Brookside Park yesterday afternoon was jammed with the greatest crowd of fans in the history of the national pastime. Over 10 percent of the population of the sixth city of the United States turned out on a chilly afternoon.” - The Plain Dealer – October 11, 1915

If anyone has any additional information or advice that might help us get this recognized by Cooperstown - it would be appreciated.

[RuthMayBond]

I am actually helping our local city councilman to get this game and these photographs recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

The largest crowd is the October 10, 1915 Championship Game at Brookside Park (Stadium) in Cleveland, OH (next to the Cleveland Zoo). The game between White Auto (Cleveland, OH) and Omaha Luxus (Omaha, NE) is believed to have had between 100,000 and 115,000 fans in attendence. It was orchestrated by the Cleveland Baseball Federation (founded in 1910 by a group of business owners to promote adult baseball) which is the oldest amature baseball organization in the country.

These photos can be found on the Library of Congress website at "loc.gov" ...just put in the search the words "Brookside" "White" "Auto" and you will get 3 different pictures. You can also search for the 1914 photo which might look a little better. The digital images are available right on the "loc.gov" site, but you'll need someone to print them for you as they are about 7.3" tall and 38" wide. (I tried to attache the photos, but couldn't)

We are in the process of getting tow of the images produced and they will soon be displayed at the "Baseball As America" exhibit (the traveling National Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit) at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.

There was an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer written back on March 5, 2007 that gives a few of the details.

....The story was on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer the day after the game as well. Here's an excerpt from the article...

“The great bowl at Brookside Park yesterday afternoon was jammed with the greatest crowd of fans in the history of the national pastime. Over 10 percent of the population of the sixth city of the United States turned out on a chilly afternoon.” - The Plain Dealer – October 11, 1915

If anyone has any additional information or advice that might help us get this recognized by Cooperstown - it would be appreciated.Maybe contact the Society for American Baseball Research headquartered in Cleveland

[Captain Cold Nose]

When is the Baseball as America exhibit going to be there? I caught it when it was in Cincinnati, but would like to see it again. Any excuse to hit the waterfront.

Cleveland surely didn't have over 1 million people back in 1915, did they? And that's not the first time I've heard it referenced as The Sixth City. What does that mean?

Good luck, JohnDog. Thanks for posting the information.

[Honus Wagner Rules]

What if you had to go to the bathroom and your in the middle of all that human mass? :confused:

[RuthMayBond]

What if you had to go to the bathroom and your in the middle of all that human mass? :confused:It gives new meaning to hold the runner, full count and squeeze play

[JohnDog]

The National Baseball Hall of Fame traveling exhibit "Baseball As America" will be at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland now thru about Labor Day in September. I have gone through it a few times...its very cool.

[vtred]

On May 7, 1959 the largest crowd ever in the LA Coliseum came out for Roy Campanella Day. Sandy Koufax pitched the LA Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the New York Yankees in an exhibition game. Will try to find the box score, but like most exhibitions, they are a little tougher to locate. :atthepc

Rats! I just came across a different source that said the Yankees won 6-2.
Any help?

Yanks won 6-2, Norm Siebern hit a homer & a triple off of Sandy Koufax who pitched into the 6th inning of the exhibition game. The Dodgers had actually played the Giants in San Francisco earlier in the day and traveled down to LA for the game against the Yankees.