CHICAGO — Mary Frances Veeck was recalling the night in 1979 that her husband, former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, returned from a particularly rough night at Comiskey Park. An anti-disco promotion with a local rock station and radio personality Steve Dahl had gone awry, with thousands of fans invading the field and forcing the forfeiture of the second game of a scheduled doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers. Bill returned to their South Side home in a foul mood. “Bill was upset at having to forfeit the game,” Mary Frances told the Chicago Tribune in a 1989 interview. “He had never had …
