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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.
Disco Demolition Night (also known as "Anti-Disco Night" and "Disco Sucks Night") was a promotional event that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. It was held during a scheduled twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers .
A major and oft-mentioned promotional event held at Old Comiskey was "Disco Demolition Night" in 1979, organized by longtime Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl and White Sox promotions manager Mike Veeck (Bill's son) on Thursday, July 12.
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 ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAs Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl drove onto the field at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979, the 50,000-strong crowd in the stands was ...
The sports section of the Detroit Free Press from July 13, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois.
Disco Demolition Night: July 12, 1979 Detroit Tigers: 4–1 Chicago White Sox: Promotional game that gave discounts to those who brought a disco record, resulting in all the collected vinyls being blown up in the middle of the field, provoking a riot and causing significant damage to the field, thus forcing Chicago to forfeit the next game to ...
One of Steve & Garry's most famous events was Disco Demolition Night. Dahl, along with Meier, and both Mike Veeck (son of then Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck ), and Jeff Schwartz of WLUP promotions, came up with a radio promotion and tie-in to the White Sox called Disco Demolition Night which took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979.