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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's the evening of July 12th, 1979 at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox baseball team.

Sitting in the stands, 10-year-old Andrew Brown leans forward and watches the Detroit Tigers pitcher wind up and release a pitch.

White Sox player at bat swings and misses. It's strike three for the last out of the game and the White Sox have lost.

Andrew doesn't mind much though. He's having fun with the rest of his Boy Scout troop, eating popcorn and hot dogs and

horsing around.

As the players leave the field, a ripple of excitement runs through the capacity crowd because

tonight is a double-headed and between games the

white socks had prepared a special event they're calling disco demolition night.

Andrew watches with amazement as a jeep roars out from underneath the stands and circles the field.

On it, a man wearing a helmet waves to the crowd.

He jumps off the back of the jeep and begin shouting over the public address system.

Getting the crowd to chant at the top of their voices,

Disco sucks.

Andrew and his friends laugh and join in enthusiastically as a crate of disco records is placed on the infield.

Then the man leaves the crowd in a countdown.

The entire stadium chants out numbers 3, 2, 1.

And then the crate of disco records Three, two, one.

And then the crate of disco records explodes on the field.

The man on the jeep speeds away,

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