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November 21, 2014The Cleveland Indians have announced details for Tribe Fest 2015, to be held at Progressive Field on January 24 and 25. The annual fan-centric event — the third bearing the Tribe Fest name — will offer the opportunity for Indians supporters to meet and get autographs from current players as well as Tribe alumni.
From the press release:
The third annual event will feature Silver Slugger Award winner Yan Gomes, Cody Allen, Carlos Carrasco, Nick Swisher, Jason Kipnis,Mike Aviles, Trevor Bauer, Michael Bourn, Lonnie Chisenhall, TJ House, Roberto Perez, Jose Ramirez, Marc Rzepczynski, Danny Salazar, Carlos Santana, Bryan Shaw and others.
Tribe coach and alumnus Sandy Alomar will be on hand, while alumni including Charles Nagy, Dennis Martinez and Paul Assenmacheralso will appear. Indians President Mark Shapiro, radio broadcasters Tom Hamilton and Jim Rosenhaus, drummer John Adams and more personalities will be on hand as well.1
As was the case last year, the event will be conducted in three sessions. There will be two on Saturday, January 24: one from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and one from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be one session on Sunday, January 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Some $3 parking spaces will be available in the Gateway East Garage, but they will be limited due to a Lake Erie Monsters home game on Saturday and a Cavaliers home game on Sunday.
The Indians boast that fans can be guaranteed autographs, but that guarantee comes with some stipulations:
Like in 2014, autographs can be guaranteed by purchasing an autograph ticket bundled at the same time with the general admission ticket online at Indians.com/TribeFest. ALL FANS in attendance are required to purchase an autograph pass if they would like to be guaranteed a spot in the autograph session line.
- $20/ticket for Indians Major League roster player sessions
- $25/ticket for Indians Alumni player sessions
Each Tribe Fest event features multiple autograph sessions, for which 250 tickets will be sold. Autographs for specific players are not guaranteed, just a space in line. If autograph sessions are not sold out, fans will be allowed to wait in line for autographs, time permitting and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
In order to maximize the amount of fans able to experience each autograph session at Tribe Fest, the purchase of autograph tickets has been limited to four per autograph session per transaction. Additionally, only one autograph session ticket per person will be honored at each autograph station.
Tickets sans guaranteed autographs are available for $10, exclusively at Indians.com/TribeFest. They go on sale Tuesday, November 25, at 10 a.m. Children age 12 and under get in free with the purchase of an adult ticket. Twelve year-olds who attend without a parent — or who have parents that make them buy their own ticket — can get in for $5.
Other activities will include hitting in the Progressive Field batting cages, tours of the home clubhouse, Q&A with Indians players and broadcasters, and concessions for sale in the Club Lounge.
- All appearances subject to change. [↩]
7 Comments
I hate to be a drag, but I don’t understand the excitement about this. Sounds to me like it’s just going to be standing in line to get worthless autographs from players sitting at tables. Is there interaction besides that? Not much you can do in an outdoor stadium in January…
The list of current players available for autographs…….. is …..uh…….hmm…. missing someone.
Klubot would scare the kids with his emotionless face.
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Emotionless or not, and while I can certainly understand that players have vacations planned during the off season it’s still another serious blunder to not have YOUR FREAKING CY YOUNG AWARD WINNER AT YOUR WINTER EVENT TO GET PEOPLE EXCITED FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON.
……but it’s cool. I’m sure the mere sight of Paul Assenmacher will whip the crowd into a frenzy.
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if anything says 90’s Tribe baseball excitement, it’s 3 members of those amazing pitching staffs!!!
we were known for our pitching, right?
I actually went and got his autograph at the 2013 Tribe Fest. He didn’t have much of a line at the time. Was very brief and to the point like you might have expected. I asked him if he knew about the Corey Kluber Society on Fangraphs (he did). I still have the wall decoration with his and Carlos Santana’s signature (also, Matt Albers, Bryan Shaw, Mickey Callaway and Scott Kazmir. Wish I had gotten Yan Gomes).
well, they are expecting the same attendance as they would for a Tuesday game in April