Municipal Stadium Cleveland Municipal Stadium Lakefront Stadium
Final baseball season, September 1993
Location
1085 West 3rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Public transit
Union Depot (1931–1953)
Owner
City of Cleveland
Operator
City of Cleveland (1931–1973) Cleveland Stadium Corporation (1973–1995)
Capacity
Baseball: 74,438 (1993) originally 78,000 (1932) Football: 81,000 (1995)
Field size
Left Field – 322 ft (98 m) Left-Center – 385 ft (117 m) Center Field – 400 ft (122 m) Right-Center – 385 ft (117 m) Right Field – 322 ft (98 m) Backstop – 60 ft (18 m)
1947 (inner fence installed) 1967 (new seats) 1974 (new scoreboard, suites)
Closed
December 17, 1995
Demolished
November 4, 1996-Early 1997
Construction cost
US$3 million ($60.1 million in 2023 dollars[1])
Architect
Walker & Weeks Osborn Engineering Company
General contractor
Biltmore Construction[2]
Tenants
Cleveland Indians (MLB) 1932–1933, 1937–1993 Cleveland Browns (AAFC/NFL) 1946–1995 Cleveland Rams (AFL/NFL) 1936, 1939–1941 Cleveland Indians (NFL) 1931 Western Reserve Red Cats (NCAA) 1933[3] John Carroll Blue Streaks (NCAA) 1933–1942, 1946–1951 Cleveland Stokers (NASL) 1967–1968 Great Lakes Bowl (NCAA) 1947
Cleveland Stadium, commonly known as Municipal Stadium, Lakefront Stadium or Cleveland Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was one of the early multi-purpose stadiums, built to accommodate both baseball and football. The stadium opened in 1931 and is best known as the long-time home of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1932 to 1993 (including 1932–1946 when games were split between League Park and Cleveland Stadium), and the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL), from 1946 to 1995, in addition to hosting other teams, other sports, and concerts. The stadium was a four-time host of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, one of the host venues of the 1948 and 1954 World Series, and the site of the original Dawg Pound, Red Right 88, and The Drive.
Through most of its tenure as a baseball facility, the stadium was the largest in Major League Baseball by seating capacity, seating over 78,000 initially and over 74,000 in its final years. It was superseded only by the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1958 to 1961, while it was the temporary home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and by Mile High Stadium in 1993, the temporary home of the expansion Colorado Rockies. For football, the stadium seated approximately 80,000 people, ranking as one of the larger seating capacities in the NFL.
Former Browns owner Art Modell took over control of the stadium from the city in the 1970s and while his organization made improvements to the facility, it continued to decline. The Indians played their final game at the stadium in October 1993 and moved to Jacobs Field the following season. Although plans were announced to renovate the stadium for use by the Browns, in 1995 Modell announced his intentions to move the team to Baltimore citing the state of Cleveland Stadium as a major factor. The Browns played their final game at the stadium in December 1995, after which they were renamed the Baltimore Ravens. As part of an agreement between Modell, the city of Cleveland, and the NFL, the Browns were officially deactivated for three seasons and the city was required to construct a new stadium on the Cleveland Stadium site. Cleveland Stadium was demolished in 1996 to make way for Cleveland Browns Stadium, which opened in 1999. Much of the debris from the demolition was placed in Lake Erie to create an artificial reef.
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^"History, Legacy...and Today". Biltmore Construction. Archived from the original on August 15, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
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