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A Ten Cent Beer Night Odyssey

Heading for Home dramatizes the Ten Cent Beer Night riot of June 4, 1974 at Cleveland Stadium during the baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers. Fans, awash in cheap beer, caused mayhem on and off the field.

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About Heading for Home

Heading For Home: A Ten Cent Beer Night Odyssey, dramatizes the Ten Cent Beer Night riot of June 4, 1974 at Cleveland Stadium during the baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers.

Every year the media “celebrate” the anniversary of the Ten Cent Beer Night riot of 1974 at Cleveland Stadium. Fans, awash in cheap beer, streaked, chanted obscenities, pelted the players with everything from hotdogs to explosives, then charged the field and brawled viciously with the visiting Texas Rangers and their own home team Indians.

This is that story.

Performed by Eric Olsen, Buck McWilliams, Alex Olsen, Mars Fargo, Tom Fulton, Nathan Welsh, Marty O’Sullivan, Dawn Olsen, Donna Westfall, Bryan Westfall, and Richard Ingraham. Eric Olsen is executive producer and host. Richard Ingraham is sound designer and original music composer. Original art by Kristen Kantounatakis.

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Meet The Host

Eric Olsen

Eric Olsen is co-author of the prize-winning America’s Most Haunted book (Berkley, 2014) and host/producer of its long-running radio show and internet presence; lead author of the multiple award-winning The Encyclopedia of Record Producers (Billboard Books, 1999), co-author of pioneering indie classic Networking in the Music Industry (Hal Leonard, 1993); founder/publisher of Blogcritics.org; founder/publisherof The Morton Report with Andrew Morton; and has spent most of his adult life on radio and TV, most recently as Pop Music Expert on Cleveland’s PBS/NPR conglomerate Ideastream.

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Richard Ingraham

Sound Designer
Richard Ingraham began his theatrical sound design and original music composition career at the Cleveland Play House over 20 years ago and has been at it ever since, working as freelancer with countless professional, educational, live and recorded productions.