July 31, 1932
The Cleveland Indians played their first game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium 87 years ago today. On July 31, 1932 the Indians played the Philadelphia Athletics. The Indians would split their home schedule between League Park and Municipal Stadium until 1947. According to
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE193207310.shtml a crowd of 76,979 saw a close game. Athletics 1-Indians- 0. The winning pitcher: Lefty Grove and losing pitcher: Mel Harder.
John Stroh was in Cleveland and rooming at 1954 E. 73rd- according to the 1930 census. It must have been a huge rooming house. John probably wasn’t home when the census – taker came, some of his information is wrong. (see census https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4638914_01070/73754177?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/108936655/person/190072026481/facts/citation/680259880262/edit/record). Sometime that summer he went to a ball game with his camera, sat behind right field and snapped a couple of pictures for us.
The Indians went on to finish the season in 4th place with 87 wins and 65 losses. Roger Peckinpaugh was their manager.
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