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Disco Demolition 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. The event eventually turned into mayhem. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) Central Division (1998–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 2, 5, 6, 16, 23, 42 Name Detroit Tigers (1901–present) Other nicknames The Bless You Boys Ballpark Comerica Park (2000–present) Tiger Stadium (1912-1999) Briggs Stadium (1938-1960) Navin Field (1912-1938) Bennett...
It was also known as "Anti-Disco Night", or, "Disco Sucks Night".
The Events Leading Up To The Night
Radio station WDAI went to an all-disco format and fired popular disk jockey Steve Dahl. In retaliation, Dahl, quickly hired by WLUP, created a mock organization called "The Insane Coho Lips" to oppose disco, and promoted it on the air. A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ...
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Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s, and which dominated mainstream pop until the late 1970s. ...
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Steve Dahl (born November 20, 1954) has been an American radio personality for over thirty years. ...
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Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s, and which dominated mainstream pop until the late 1970s. ...
Meanwhile, on May 2, the Tigers game at Chicago was rained out. Rules called for the game to be made up at the two clubs' next meeting in Chicago. July 12 was to have been a single, Thursday night game to kick off a four-game weekend series, the last series before the All-Star Break. The first meeting was switched to a doubleheader, and the extra game resulted in the unusual situation of a five-game series. The Sox would end up losing four of the five games. The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the Midsummer Classic, is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the respective managers (from the previous years World...
Dahl and his on-air partner, Garry Meier, devised a promotion that involved people bringing unwanted disco music records to the game in exchange for an admission fee of 98 cents, representing the station's location on the dial. It would prove to be the most ill-conceived promotional idea since the infamous "Ten Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland in 1974. Garry Meier Garry Meier is a Chicago-based radio talk show host. ...
It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ...
Ten Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by the American Leagues Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium on June 4, 1974. ...
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The following are the baseball events of the year 1974 throughout the world. ...
The Event and Results This promotion apparently encouraged attendees who were not typical baseball fans. White Sox management was hoping for an additional crowd of 5,000, but instead, 50,000 turned out. Thousands of people were climbing walls and fences in order to get into Comiskey Park and others were locked out of the park.
Sox TV announcers Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall commented freely on the "strange people" wandering aimlessly in the stands. In Slouching Toward Fargo, Mike Veeck, son of then-White Sox owner Bill Veeck, recalled that the pregame air was heavy with the scent of marijuana. Many spectators, realizing that long-playing (LP) records were shaped remarkably like frisbees, threw their records from the stands during the game, and the records often struck other fans. The fans also allegedly threw beer and even firecrackers from the stands. [1] For the actor with a similar name, see Harry Carey. ...
James Anthony Piersall (born November 14, 1929 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball. ...
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After the first game, Dahl, dressed in army fatigues and a helmet, along with a female sidekick named Lorelei, and bodyguards, came out to center field with the records in a box rigged with a bomb in a mock demolition of disco music. When it exploded, the bomb ripped a hole in the outfield grass surface and thousands of fans ran onto the field, some lighting their own fires and starting mini-riots. The batting cage was reportedly wrecked [2], and the bases literally stolen, along with chunks of the field itself.[3] The crowd, once it got on the field, apparently mostly walked around, stood, and milled about [4], although some participants burned banners and others sat on the grass or ran. The position of the center fielder A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field - the baseball fielding position between left field and right field (e. ...
The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb produced in the United States. ...
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Veeck and Caray used the public address system to implore the fans to leave the field immediately, but this failed, and eventually the field was cleared by police in riot gear. Six people reported minor injuries and thirty-nine were arrested for disorderly conduct. [5] Tigers' manager Sparky Anderson refused to field his team citing safety concerns, which resulted in the forfeiture by the White Sox to the Tigers. The remaining games in the series were played, but for the rest of the season fielders and managers complained about the poor condition of the field. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Riot control are the measures to control a riot or to break up an unwanted demonstration (usually of protestors). ...
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George Lee Sparky Anderson (born February 22, 1934 in Bridgewater, South Dakota) is fifth on the all-time list for manager career wins in Major League Baseball (behind Connie Mack, John McGraw, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox) and is the first manager to win the World Series while leading...
In rare cases, baseball games are forfeited, and the score is recorded with the forfeiting team scoring no runs; their opponents are credited with the same number of runs as innings scheduled. ...
At least one writer characterized this event, referencing "American Pie", as "The Day Disco Died". [6] For other uses, see American Pie (disambiguation). ...
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s, and which dominated mainstream pop until the late 1970s. ...
According to the 1986 book "Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone history of Rock and Roll" the event was the "emblematic moment" of the anti-disco "crusade" and noted that "the following year disco had peaked as a commercial blockbuster". This article is about the magazine. ...
Steve Dahl himself said in an interview with Keith Olbermann that disco “was a fad probably on its way out” but that the event “hastened its demise”. Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American news anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster. ...
Trivia According to an article, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, a Chicago native, participated in the event, sliding into third base. Michael Clarke Duncan (born December 10, 1957) is an academy award nominated actor who has starred in a number of successful films. ...
Blame Although Bill Veeck took much of the public heat for this fiasco, it was known among baseball people that his son Mike was the actual front-office "brains," as it were, behind this promotion. As a result, Mike was blacklisted from the major leagues for a long time after his father retired. As Mike related in the book Slouching Toward Fargo, about the independent St. Paul Saints which he partly owns, "The second that first guy shimmied down the outfield wall, I knew my life was over!" A blacklist is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ...
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Apology On July 12th, 2001, in a brief ceremony before the Florida Marlins home game against the New York Yankees, Mike Veeck, by then a marketing consultant for the team, apologized to Harry Wayne Casey, lead singer for KC and the Sunshine Band, a leading disco act. [7] Major league affiliations National League (1993–present) East Division (1993–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 5, 42 Name Florida Marlins (1993–present) Other nicknames The Fish Ballpark Dolphin Stadium (1993–present) a. ...
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Harry Wayne Casey Harry Wayne Casey (KC) (born January 31, 1951 as Harold Wayne Casey) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. ...
KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. ...
Similar Events In The National Pastime (Number 25), a yearly publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, there is an article by James Forr about various ball games forfeited since 1920. He discusses the game at some length. He also addresses a game August 10, 1995 at Dodger Stadium, where the home team conducted a classic ill-conceived promotion that violated the first rule of promotions ("Don't give away something the fans can throw, especially a baseball"). SABR redirects here; for Selectable Assault Battle Rifle (S.A.B.R.) see XM29 OICW The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown, New York in August of 1971. ...
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Dodger Stadium is a large outdoor baseball stadium in Los Angeles, California at Chávez Ravine. ...
The Dodgers handed baseballs to the 50,000+ paying customers as they entered the gates. After a few rounds of alcohol and some close umpiring calls, many fans began pelting the field with their souvenir baseballs, and eventually the game was forfeited to the visiting St. Louis Cardinals, making this the most recent forfeiture in the Major League Baseball. Leffe, a Belgian beer, served in branded glasses Schlenkerla Rauchbier straight from the cask Beer brewed from wheat. ...
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Forfeiting is the act of voluntarily admitting defeat in a competition or contest, thereby surrendering victory to the opposition. ...
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Forr also reports that with Dodgers' game now the most recent forfeiture, rather than Disco Demolition Night, Mike Veeck said happily, "I finally got it off my back, I'm a free man!"
See also Ten Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by the American Leagues Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium on June 4, 1974. ...
References - ^ http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/DiscoDemolition.htm
- ^ http://www.outernetweb.com/focal/disco/photos/ddpic23.jpg
- ^ http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/DiscoDemolition.htm
- ^ http://www.outernetweb.com/focal/disco/photos/index1.html
- ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=behrens/040809
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmtpp/is_200407/ai_n6834125
- ^ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/jul/13/disco_demolition_promoter/
External links - Whitesoxinteractive.com's Disco Demolition story page
- Disco Demolition Night News Headlines
- More about the Insane Coho Lips
- Story about Disco Demolition Night
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Albert William Kaline (born December 19, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former Major League Baseball player. ...
Harold Newhouser (May 20, 1921 - November 10, 1998) was a professional Major League Baseball pitcher of the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Willie Hortons mugshot on the Weekend Passes ad William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951 in Chesterfield, South Carolina) is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, providing...
For the basketball player, see Jackie Robinson (basketball). ...
Key Personnel: Owner: Mike Ilitch • General Manager: Dave Dombrowski • Manager: Jim Leyland Mike and Marian Ilitch founded Little Caesars Pizza in 1959. ...
Dave Dombrowski (born July 27, 1956) is the current President, CEO, and General Manager of the Detroit Tigers baseball organization. ...
James Richard Leyland (born December 15, 1944, in Perrysburg, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball manager for the Detroit Tigers. ...
World Series Championships (4) 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984 The 1935 World Series featured the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs, with the Tigers winning in 6 games for their first championship in five Series appearances. ...
The 1945 World Series matched the American League Detroit Tigers against the National League Chicago Cubs. ...
The 1968 World Series featured the defending champion St. ...
The 1984 World Series began on October 9, 1984 and ended October 14. ...
American League Championships (10) 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2006 The following are the baseball events of the year 1907 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1908 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1909 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1934 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1935 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1940 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1945 throughout the world. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1968 throughout the world. ...
The 1984 American League Championship Series was a Major League Baseball playoff series played between the Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals. ...
The 2006 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was the second round of the 2006 American League playoffs; it began on October 10 and ended on October 14. ...
Seasons 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909 • 1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929 • 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 This article is under construction. ...
Major league affiliations American League (Since 1901) Central Division (Since 1998) 2006 Uniform Location Comerica Park (Since 2000) Detroit, Michigan (Since 1901) 2006 Information Owner(s) Mike Ilitch Manager(s) Jim Leyland Local television FSN Detroit WJBK (Fox 2 Detroit) Local radio WXYT WKRK The Detroit Tigers 2006 season was...
Major league affiliations American League (Since 1901) Central Division (Since 1998) 2007 Uniform Location Comerica Park (Since 2000) Detroit, Michigan (Since 1901) 2007 Information Owner(s) Manager(s) Local Television Local Radio The Detroit Tigers 2007 season will start off with the Tigers trying to win the AL Central Division...
Minor League Affiliates Toledo Mud Hens(AAA) • Erie SeaWolves(AA) • Lakeland Flying Tigers(A) • West Michigan Whitecaps(A) • Oneonta Tigers(A) • Gulf Coast Tigers(Rookie) • DSL Tigers(Rookie) Class-Level Triple-A (1902-1913, 1916-1955, 1965-Present) Minor League affiliations International League (1965-Present) West Division American Association (1902-1913, 1916-1955) Major League affiliation Detroit Tigers (1967-1973, 1987-present) Minnesota Twins (1978-1986) Cleveland Indians (1976-1977) Philadelphia Phillies (1974-1975) New York Yankees (1965...
Class-Level AA Minor League affiliations Eastern League Southern Division Major League affiliation Detroit Tigers Current uniform Name Erie SeaWolves (1987-present) Ballpark Jerry Uht Park Minor League titles League titles Division titles Owner(s)/Operated By: Mandalay Sports Entertainment Manager: Matt Walbeck General Manager: The Erie SeaWolves are a...
League Florida State League Division Western Year founded [[ in baseball|]] Major League affiliation Detroit Tigers Home ballpark Joker Marchant Stadium Previous home ballparks City Lakeland, Florida Current uniform colors Previous uniform colors Logo design Division titles League titles Manager [[ ]] Owner [[ ]] The Lakeland Flying Tigers are a minor league baseball team...
The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Detroit Tigers, that plays in the Midwest League. ...
League New York-Penn League Division Stedler Division Year founded 1967 Major League affiliation Detroit Tigers Home ballpark Damaschke Field Previous home ballparks City Oneonta, New York Current uniform colors navy blue, orange Previous uniform colors navy blue, white Logo design An orange tiger stalking through a navy blue O...
The Gulf Coast Tigers are the Rookie Level minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. ...
The Dominican Summer League is a branch of affiliated minor league baseball which is played in the Dominican Republic. ...
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