Here's some news footage from the riot. In the game highlights, you'll notice the White Sox wearing what look like turn-of-the-century softball uniforms. The uniforms just add to the weirdness of the entire event.

It sounds so stupid now on so many levels.

The second game of a doubleheader between the White Sox and Tigers was canceled after a riot broke out on the field between games. The cause? A silly promotion to burn disco records.

Some people might dispute using the term riot, but when there are people on the field who shouldn't be there and fires are being set, riot seems to me a highly appropriate description.

The idea was to let fans in for 98 cents and a disco record that would be destroyed. The cheap price was close to the call letters of the participating radio station. The records were placed in a wooden box in center field that was blown up.

Then things got scary.

According to the story in The Times, fans started pouring onto the field "as if on signal." Soon there were fights, fires and police in riot gear.

The second game wasn't played and the Tigers were awarded the victory in a forfeit.

It's amazing that given all the elements involved, no one thought to stop this stupidity before things got out of hand.

–Keith Thursby