event · Jul 1979

Disco Demolition

WLUP radio sponsors Disco Demolition Night between games at a White Sox double header in Chicago. After blowing up a large crate filled with disco records, fans rush the field causing a near riot and forcing the White Sox to forfeit game two.

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