stackyFACTSBlowing up musical genres on a baseball field is exactly as chaotic as it sounds. A radio host organized a promotion in 1979 to detonate a crate of disco albums during a double-header, resulting in a mob storming the field, tearing up the grass, and forcing a forfeit.
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