re: Crazy Times in Tiger Stadium

The basis of the story is true. I will guess it was 1980 or 1981. Pledge by the name of n.d. From baton rouge had been at the stadium all day as was the custom back then. He and probably the entire freshman "Greek" class was there. The male pledges and their dates had to get in line early to get in quickly to save seats for the actives. Our fraternity sat close to the bottom of the stands. Before the game even started, this guy chuncks an empty pint bottle and nails a cheerleader in her shoulder. He did it so early that there was nothing really going on. The cops nabbed him immediately and away he went. As for the cheerleader, she was from baton rouge. Her initials we j.s. I don't think she was seriously injured. Btw, getting booze into death valley was simple back in the day.