Entries from Gothamist tagged with '1977'
August 31, 2008
The 1977 Yankee season has been not only written about, but also had an ESPN mini-series made about it. Many of its stories are well known, but there is a strange tale from the season that few know about. Well, unless you collected baseball cards. In 1977, Burger King restaurants in the Tri-State area issued a set of twenty-two New York Yankees baseball cards plus a checklist card, free with the purchase of selected......
Continue Reading "The Curious Case of the 23rd Card in a Series of 22"May 26, 2008
This installment of NY1’s Today in New York City History aired ten years ago today (a Tuesday for those keeping score at home). Now thanks to someone randomly taping this back then and YouTube it is preserved in digital amber. In the twenty five second piece there was room for only two historical tidbits - the cornerstone of City Hall being laid in 1803 (it is the oldest continuously used City Hall in the country)......
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