Concerts and Other Events
Though Sick's Stadium was primarily a baseball venue, it also occasionally held other events, including rock concerts — most famously, an Elvis Presley concert on September 1, 1957 (one of the first concerts to be held at a major outdoor stadium), which was attended by a young Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix himself later performed at the stadium, as did Janis Joplin. Floyd Patterson knocked out Olympic gold medalist Pete Rademacher in six rounds at Sick's Stadium August 22, 1957. Future heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston defeated Portland, Oregon's Eddie Machen in a 12-round decision at Sick's on September 7, 1960.
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“If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
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—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
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