Then how do you explain the name "Municipal Stadium" in Cleveland, which was built, I believe, in the 1930s. Wasn't that a government funded project?
Then how do you explain the name "Municipal Stadium" in Cleveland, which was built, I believe, in the 1930s. Wasn't that a government funded project?Cleveland Municipal Stadium wasn't built for baseball alone. I should have made clear I was speaking of baseball-only parks when I spoke of Milwaukee County Stadium; I shouldn't have said "sports stadium." Cleveland Municipal was built with local government funds. (There were rumours for years that it was a WPA project, but the WPA was formed after the stadium was built.)
Another rumour that turned out false: Cleveland Municipal wasn't built to attract the 1932 Summer Olympics. Those Olympics had been awarded to Los Angeles several years before the ground was broken in Cleveland. The old Mistake on the Lake was financed by voters approving a $2.5 million tax levy, though the park actually cost $500,000 more to build.