CLEVELAND, Ohio – The 74,420 fans who attended Cleveland’s home opener on April 7, 1973, saw a classic pitchers’ duel between two of the game’s best at the time, the Indians’ Gaylord Perry and the Tigers’ Mickey Lolich. On a 62-degree afternoon at Municipal Stadium, the Indians won, 2-1.
Two of the fans there that day, Jim and Stacey Jones, remember next to nothing about what happened on the field.
Nor should they. That was the day the couple’s love story began…