1975: Cleveland Indians Owner Ted Bonda Aims His 5-Iron at at Municipal Stadium's Scoreboard. 🏟️ ... One night in the press box at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in August 1975, Cleveland Indians owner Ted Bonda said, “I can hit a 5-iron shot over the center field scoreboard from home plate.” He even offered to back the boast up with some legal tender — for charity, of course. A total of $1,000 in bets were made that he couldn’t, including $25 from Cleveland Press writer Bob Sudyk, and the “Bonda blast” was on. At 9 a.m. on Aug. 19, 1975 (early, since the Indians would host the Texas Rangers that evening and Sudyk noted it was payday at the Press), Bonda stood at home plate with Charlie Sifford, who, after being the first Black golfer on the PGA Tour, had become the club pro that year at Sleepy Hollow Golf Course in Brecksville. Sifford, with his ever-present cigar and Panama hat, paced off the distance 400 feet to the center field wall and said, “No way it can be done with a five.” ...