Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
Subtitle: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780312424305
Subjects: Baseball - History; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Baseball - General; Sports & Recreation; 1951-; 20th century; City and town life; History; New York; New York (N.Y.); New York (State); Social conditions; Sports
First sentence: ON the evening of July 3, 1976, some fifty thousand New Yorkers sat on blankets in Central Park's Sheep Meadow eating picnic dinners, drinking wine, waving red, white, and blue sparklers, and listening to Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic in a surging birthday concert for the United States of America.