July 12, 1979
It was a hot Thursday afternoon in Chicago, as the hometown White Sox were taking on the visiting Detroit Tigers in an afternoon-evening doubleheader. The White Sox were having a lackluster season, averaging about five-thousand fans per game, but on this evening over ten times that number had shown up, pitched into a frenzy by local Chicago…
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