CHICAGO – New Chicago White Sox hitting coach Greg Sparks hopes there will be more joy and less fright than the last time he spent significant time around the club.
Sparks, who was hired this week to take over the job previously held by Harold Baines, was a White Sox bat boy in 1979, the year when Disco Demolition Night took place.
It might be among one of the most well-known moments in White Sox history, but at the time, the mayhem that followed an exploding box of disco records in center field was a little too much for the senses.