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Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event occurring on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago during a scheduled twilight-night American League doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers which eventually turned into mayhem. ... This promotion apparently encouraged attendees who were not "typical" baseball fans. White Sox management was expecting 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. After the first game, Dahl 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.

Disco Demolition Night

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Ten Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium on June 4, 1974. The idea behind the promotion was to offer as many beers as the fans could drink for just ten cents apiece, thus increasing ticket sales. However, the stunt also had the effect of slowly turning calm and orderly baseball fans into a rowdy and raucous crowd devoid of all inhibition. ... A woman ran out to the Indians' on-deck circle and lifted her shirt, and a naked man sprinted to second base as Grieve hit his second home run. A father and son team got into the act one inning later, running out in the outfield and mooning the bleacherites. ... Bases were stolen as souvenirs and many fans threw a vast array of objects, such as cups, rocks, radio batteries, hot dogs, popcorn containers, and even several chairs.

Ten Cent Beer Night