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The Bronx is Burning (ESPN tie-in): 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
The Bronx is Burning 1977 Baseball Politics and the Battle for the Soul of a City - ESPN tie-in Author:Jonathan Mahler A New York Times Notable Book of the Year — Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson. — — A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx Is Burning is the story of two epic b... more »attles: the fight between Yankee Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch for the city's mayorship. Buried beneath these parallel conflicts--one for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the city--was the subtext of race.
Deftly intertwined by journalist Jonathan Mahler, these braided Big Apple narratives reverberate to reveal a year that also saw the opening of Studio 54, the acquisition of the New York Post by Rupert Murdoch, a murderer dubbed the "Son of Sam," the infamous blackout, and the evolution of punk rock. As Koch defeated Cuomo, and as Reggie Jackson rescued a team racked with dissension, 1977 became a year of survival--and also of hope.« less