On July 12, 1979, the Chicago White Sox staged “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park. After the Sox lost the first game to the Detroit Tigers, 4-1. Over 5,000 fans ran onto the field, the fans refused to leave the field of play and the Disco Demolition Night promotion gone awry. Mike Veeck’s promotion involves admitting fans for 98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then literally blowing up the LPs and 45s in center field. | Litehouse Media
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On July 12, 1979, the Chicago White Sox staged “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park. After the Sox lost the first game to the Detroit Tigers, 4-1. Over 5,000 fans ran onto the field, the fans refused to leave the field of play and the Disco Demolition Night promotion gone awry. Mike Veeck’s promotion involves admitting fans for 98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then literally blowing up the LPs and 45s in center field. | Litehouse Media
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Today In 1979: The infamous "Disco Demolition Night" is held at Comiskey Park! The ensuing chaos and damage to the field forces the Chicago #WhiteSox to forfeit the scheduled second game of a doubleheader vs. the Detroit #Tigers! ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #Disco #History | Baseball by BSmile
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Today In 1979: The infamous "Disco Demolition Night" is held at Comiskey Park! The ensuing chaos and damage to the field forces the Chicago #WhiteSox to forfeit the scheduled second game of a doubleheader vs. the Detroit #Tigers! ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #Disco #History | Baseball by BSmile
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Disco Demolition Night blew up—literally and figuratively—on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Dreamed up by radio DJ Steve Dahl and White Sox promotions man Mike Veeck, the stunt offered cheap admission to fans who brought a disco record to be blown up between games of a doubleheader. The explosion lit the crowd’s fuse—thousands stormed the field, tore up the turf, and forced the Sox to forfeit the second game. It was a wild night that marked the symbolic death of disco and helped cem
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Disco Demolition Night blew up—literally and figuratively—on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Dreamed up by radio DJ Steve Dahl and White Sox promotions man Mike Veeck, the stunt offered cheap admission to fans who brought a disco record to be blown up between games of a doubleheader. The explosion lit the crowd’s fuse—thousands stormed the field, tore up the turf, and forced the Sox to forfeit the second game. It was a wild night that marked the symbolic death of disco and helped cem
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On July 12, 1979, Chicago’s Comiskey Park hosted the infamous "Disco Demolition Night," where fans stormed the field after DJ Steve Dahl blew up a crate of disco records between games of a White Sox doubleheader. The chaos led to a forfeit—and a wild moment in music and baseball history! Tags: #DiscoDemolitionNight #ChicagoHistory #July121979 #ComiskeyPark #SteveDahl #WhiteSox #DiscoSucks #BaseballHistory #MusicHistory #1970s | Sodaneck
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On July 12, 1979, Chicago’s Comiskey Park hosted the infamous "Disco Demolition Night," where fans stormed the field after DJ Steve Dahl blew up a crate of disco records between games of a White Sox doubleheader. The chaos led to a forfeit—and a wild moment in music and baseball history! Tags: #DiscoDemolitionNight #ChicagoHistory #July121979 #ComiskeyPark #SteveDahl #WhiteSox #DiscoSucks #BaseballHistory #MusicHistory #1970s | Sodaneck
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⚾️🕺🏻On July 12, 1979 on “Disco Demolition Night”, a promotion denigrating disco music devised by Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl, Chicago’s Comiskey Park is rocked as some 5,000 to 7,000 fans in a crowd of 50,000 run amok between games of the White Sox’s twinight doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers. After a ritual burning of disco records in center-field, the fans (many of whom were admitted for 98 cents with a disco record) overwhelm security and storm the field. Helmeted police don't arri
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#OnThisDay in 1979, disco went up in smoke as 60,000 baseball fans turned up to a Chicago White Sox game to burn disco records and cry “Disco Sucks!”. The infamous Disco Demolition Night, with racist and homophobic undertones, was led by rock DJ Steve Dahl who was aggravated by Saturday Night Fever and the mainstream success of disco. | 4:3
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