Cleveland Stadium Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== The impetus for Cleveland Stadium came from city manager [[William R. Hopkins]], Cleveland Indians' president [[Ernest Barnard]], real estate magnate and future Indians' president [[Alva Bradley]], and the [[Van Sweringen brothers]], who thought that the attraction of a stadium would benefit area commerce in general and their own commercial interests in downtown Cleveland in particular.<ref>{{cite book |author=Lewis, Franklin|title=The Cleveland Indians|publisher=Kent State University Press reprint from Putnam|isbn=978-0-87-338885-6|year=2006|pages=166–167}}</ref> However, some have incorrectly stated that it was built in a failed bid to attract the [[1932 Summer Olympics]], which had been awarded to Los Angeles in 1923,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Browne |editor1-first=F.G. |title=The Games of the Xth Olympiad, Los Angeles 1932 Official Report|date=1933 |publisher=Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932, Ltd. |location=Los Angeles, California |oclc=1437448 |pages=37–38 |url=http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/Official%20Past%20Games%20Reports/Summer/ENG/1932_Los_Angeles_Official_Report.pdf |access-date=January 5, 2016}}</ref> long before ground was broken on the stadium.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pahigaian|first1=Josh|first2=Kevin|last2=O'Connell|title=The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip|year=2004|publisher=Lyons Press|location=[[Guilford, Connecticut]]|isbn=1-592-28159-1 |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FM1YtoSZEnAC&pg=PA235}}</ref> Another common misconception is that Cleveland Stadium was a [[Works Progress Administration]] project; in fact, the WPA was not created until 1935, four years after the stadium was built.<ref>{{cite book |last=Torry |first=Jack |date=1996 |title=Endless Summers: The Fall and Rise of the Cleveland Indians |publisher=Diamond Communications |page=207 |isbn=0-912-08398-0 |quote=A peculiar legend has emerged that Cleveland Stadium was a WPA project designed to attract the Olympics.}}</ref> In November 1928, Cleveland voters passed by 112,448 to 76,975, a 59% passage rate, with 55% needed to pass, "a US$2.5 million levy for a fireproof stadium on the Lakefront." Actual construction costs overran that amount by $500,000.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cormack|first=George|title=Municipal Stadium: Memories on the Lakefront, Vol. 1|year=1997|url=https://www.biblio.com/book/municipal-stadium-memories-lakefront-volume-one/d/1243117824|publisher=Instant Concepts, Inc.|location=Cleveland, Ohio|isbn=978-1-88-217121-7|page=2}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page