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Cincydawg · « **Reply #1638 on:** March 28, 2023, 07:04:44 PM »

I was looking at old CFB scores and results and found in 1911, UGA in football:

Beat Sewanee 12-7
Beat Mercer 8-5
Lost to Vandy 17-0
Beat Tech 5-0
Tied Auburn 0-0

and finished 7-1-1 ... I thought that rather strange.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1639 on:** March 28, 2023, 07:10:56 PM »

The Junkers G.38 - Once the largest airplane in the world with passengers on two flight decks and in the wings, and all engines being servicable in flight! Unusually, of the G.38’s four engines, two of them were different types. Both were Junkers diesel engines. Whilst similar on the surface, they were completely separate designs. [color=var(--blue-link)]https://planehistoria.com/pioneers/junkers-g-38/[/url][/font][/size][/color]

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1640 on:** March 29, 2023, 07:13:50 AM »

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1641 on:** March 29, 2023, 07:15:04 AM »

847badgerfan · « **Reply #1642 on:** March 29, 2023, 08:14:45 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on March 29, 2023, 07:15:04 AM

The Milwaukee Braves were unique among professional sports franchises. When owner Lou Perini moved his National League baseball club from Boston to Milwaukee in March 1953, the Braves became the first major league ball club to change cities in half a century. The shift initiated a series of westward migrations by teams and provided the impetus for league expansion.

Perini’s decision to move the Braves to Wisconsin rested on three factors: attendance in Boston, in competition with the Red Sox, was sparse; Fred Miller, president of the brewery that produced Miller High Life, provided Perini moral support and advertising revenue; and newly-built Milwaukee County Stadium, which offered parking for nearly 10,000 cars, was ready to receive a big-league tenant.

County Stadium was the first major league ballpark built with lights (other teams had added lights to pre-existing stadiums) and the first paid for entirely with public funds. The stadium had actually been built for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. Because Perini also owned the Brewers, he was able to transfer his Milwaukee farm club to Toledo to make way for the Braves.

Milwaukee fans inherited an array of heroes to worship. They had handsome young slugger Eddie Mathews, who led the majors in home runs. They had high-kicking southpaw Warren Spahn, on his way to the Hall of Fame. They had powerful Joe Adcock, feisty Johnny Logan, speedy Billy Bruton, Wisconsin farm boy Andy Pafko—and the next spring they added the legend-in-the-making Henry Aaron.

The Milwaukee Braves quickly became the sensation of baseball. Local merchants showered the ballplayers with gifts, from dry-cleaning service to fermented beverages. Fans packed the grandstand and cheered every move by anyone in a Braves uniform. The Braves led the league almost until July and wound up in second behind the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Despite playing in a ballpark without bleachers in center or right field, and with no advance ticket sales, the Braves established a National League attendance record of 1,826,397. The following year they surpassed that number by more than 300,000.

The Braves reached the pinnacle of their sport in 1957, polishing off Casey Stengel’s New York Yankees to capture the World Series. Lew Burdette hurled three complete-game victories, including two shutouts, to bring the championship to “Bushville,” which Milwaukee legend suggests was the sobriquet applied to the city by the Yankees.

In 1958 the Braves repeated as pennant winners but fell to the Yankees in the World Series, four games to three. The following season Milwaukee tied for first but lost to the L.A. Dodgers in a playoff.

As attendance declined, Perini sold the Braves in November 1962 to a group of investors from Chicago. They tried to move the club to Atlanta after the 1964 season, but the stadium lease held them in Milwaukee through 1965. State Attorney General Bronson La Follette sued to keep the team, but on Opening Day 1966 the once-beloved Braves, who had never experienced a losing season in 13 years in Milwaukee, were playing in Atlanta Stadium.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1643 on:** March 29, 2023, 08:19:24 AM »

Atlanta stadium was built for $16 million (and it showed) and cost $68 million to demolish and cart away.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #1644 on:** March 29, 2023, 08:58:39 AM »

Atlanta really likes building stadiums for its teams.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1645 on:** March 29, 2023, 09:42:39 AM »

They do, and they like tearing down old ones. The old Turner Field is now the football stadium for Georgia State. At least the MB dome was not using city monies. (Well, it's a tax paid by visitors etc.)

Folks here voted a new sales tax for MARTA a few years back and today there is a lot of concern about where that money went, it doesn't seem to have gone into transit.

Cities ...

MrNubbz · « **Reply #1646 on:** March 29, 2023, 09:50:27 AM »

Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 29, 2023, 08:58:39 AM

Atlanta really likes building stadiums for its teams.

Quote from: Cincydawg on March 29, 2023, 09:42:39 AM

They do, and they like tearing down old ones. The old Turner Field is now the football stadium for Georgia State.

Good they can Build a roof in Cleveland for us. BROWNS owner Jimmy Hasbeen has been rattling sabers he wants one.They have passed I don't know 3-4 sin taxes since '94 - EFF them. The slime ball in a sea of puss owner just last year gave a 230 million guaranteed contract to a QB with no less than 25 sexual misconduct/harrassment charges against him. And Jimmy Hasbeen should seriously be doing time for fraud

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1647 on:** March 29, 2023, 09:53:33 AM »

Pass a hotel tax and rental car tax and pay for it.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #1648 on:** March 29, 2023, 10:17:17 AM »

Do enough tourists visit Cleveland to pay for a dome? Conventions?

???

FearlessF · « **Reply #1649 on:** March 29, 2023, 10:51:59 AM »

rock and roll hall of fame

FearlessF · « **Reply #1650 on:** March 29, 2023, 10:52:21 AM »

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Cincydawg · « **Reply #1651 on:** March 29, 2023, 11:05:00 AM »

Funding is an insue for smaller cities when it comes to stadia. Film at 11.

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