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Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot.At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in. By John Dorn It was a night that brought one of the most destructive revolutions in professional sports history, but one that has been ...
The people who attended the Disco Demolition Night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park might have thought they were killing it. ... Two men dance together during a 1978 New Year’s Eve party at the ...
The first game in Comiskey Park was a 2–0 loss to the St. Louis Browns on July 1, 1910. [3] [4] The first no-hitter at Comiskey Park was in 1911, hurled by Ed Walsh on August 27, a 5–0 win over Boston. The Sox won their first home night game, over St. Louis on August 14, 1939, 5–2. [13]
The concept was to create an event to "end disco once and for all" in the center field of Comiskey Park that night by allowing people to get tickets at the box office if they brought $0.98 (for WLUP's frequency) and at least one disco record. [14]
Oct. 30—Grainy TV news footage from 1979 shows thousands of people swarming over the field at Chicago's Comiskey Park, burning stacks of dance records and holding banners that read "Disco Sucks."
Longtime vendor Mark Reiner offered a humorous anecdote about selling beer on the field during Comiskey's infamous 1979 Disco Demolition Night riot. As a young fan, pitcher Donn Pall remembered attending Disco Demolition Night. Vendor and stadium archivist Lloyd Rutzky provided insights into Comiskey Park's unique stadium culture.
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