"I recently finished reading Jonathan Mahler's book The Bronx is Burning, the companion piece to ESPN's miniseries of the same name concluding tonight (which I have not had the opportunity to watch). The title comes from the final collision between Yankee mayhem and civic disorder, when Howard Cosell intoned 'There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning,' as a massive fire raged in view of the TV cameras during Game Two of the 1977 World Series at Yankee Stadium."
Baseball Crank
amazon: The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
amazon: The Bronx Is Burning (2007)
Wikipedia
NYT: Mini-Series Revisits the Yankees’ Melodrama During the Summer of ’77
YouTube: FDNY The Bronx is Burning 1972 documentary (Video)
YouTube: The Bronx is Burning, 2007 (Video)
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