'77 NOT THE WORST

NYC'S DECLINE CONTINUED

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 25, 1977 YANKEES 3, ROYALS 1

  By LARRY BROOKS

  July 25, 2007 -

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 25, 1977 YANKEES 3, ROYALS 1

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

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  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  By MAURY ALLEN

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  By MAURY ALLEN

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  By MAURY ALLEN

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 20, 1977 ALL-STAR GAME NL 7, AL 5

  By MAURY ALLEN

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 18, 1977 ROYALS 8, YANKEES 4

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  FROM THE PAGES OF THE POST

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 16, 1977 ROYALS 7, YANKEES 4

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  JULY 15, 1977 YANKEES 6, BREWERS 3

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin’s Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the Dodgers in...more >

• JULY 16, 1977

  ROYALS 7, YANKEES 4

  By LARRY BROOKS

  George Stein brenner held a 25-minute meet ing with the Yankees yesterday afternoon, and it obviously did them a world of good. They were positively inept in their 7-4 loss to the Royals here last night...more >

• JULY 15, 1977

  YANKEES 6, BREWERS 3

  By LARRY BROOKS

  It was Tuesday night in Milwaukee and the Brewers were turning the Yankees' lights out. George Steinbrenner, in town for a meeting with Billy Martin and the coaches, talked about his team as he watched the game...more >

• JULY 14, 1977

  BREWERS 9, YANKEES 8

  By LARRY BROOKS

  ON the night the lights went out in New York, the Yankees went down in Milwaukee, dropping a 9-8 decision to the Brewers at County Stadium...more >

• JULY 13, 1977

  YANKEES 5, BREWERS 2

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Weary of the constant controversy sur rounding the Yankees, Billy Martin has threatened to bar certain New York writers from the clubhouse, team bus or plane if he deems necessary...more >

• LEAD COP RELIVES THE DAY HE MET A PSYCHO

  Retired Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey was a NYPD task-force supervisor who questioned David Berkowitz immediately after his arrest. Here are Coffey's recollec tions, as...more >

• SON OF SAM'S REIGN OF FEAR

  SIEGE BY A MURDEROUS MADMAN

  By MURRAY WEISS, Criminal Justice Editor

  This is Part 4 of a five-day series marking the 30th anniversary of New York City's wild and terrifying summer of 1977. Blackouts. Riots. Layoffs. What other curse could lay siege to the...more >

• MY DOOMED 1ST DATE WITH TRAGIC STACY

  Robert Violante was just 20 when he was partially blinded by the "Son of Sam." Violante turns 50 today, still lives in Brooklyn, and, like David Ber kowitz before...more >

• JULY 12, 1977

  ORIOLES 4, YANKEES 3

  By LARRY BROOKS

  "As far as I was concerned," Earl Weaver said after the Orioles took their third straight from the Yankees, a ninth-inning 4-3 decision, "the whole series was a classic."...more >

• 'PITCH' BLACK

  LIGHTS OUT ON MET BID FOR RECORD

  By DAVID K. LI

  The Yankees weren't New York's only baseball story in the summer of 1977. The Mets had their own little bit of history - they were the Big Apple team playing at home the night of the blackout...more >

• IT TAKES A PILLAGE, BUT BIZ LIVES ON

  By CHUCK BENNETT

  This is Part 3 of a five-day se ries marking the 30th anniver sary of New York City's wild summer of '77. Right after the 1977 blackout, shop owner Roy Alesi often wondered...more >

• AN OVERDUE REVIVAL AFTER BUSHWICK'S BUSHWHACK

  By PATRICK GALLAHUE

  When the Rheingold brewery closed in 1976, the once-proud industrial center of Bushwick was on the brink of ruin. But it was the city's calamitous blackout and the ensuing chaos just a few...more >

• JULY 11, 1977

  ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 0

  By LARRY BROOKS

  Amazing. Here it is, the middle of July, the baseball sea son better than half-over, and the Yankees have yet to be beaten by another AL club...more >

• THE WONDER OF REGGIE

  By LARRY BROOKS

  The irony is that even as he denies to this day saying the words, Reggie Jackson indeed was the straw that stirred the drink for the 1977 Yankees, a fractured team everywhere other than between the...more >

• THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY

  MAYOR HAD NO POWER TO QUELL THE CHAOS

  By TOM TOPOUSIS

  This is the second of a five-part series marking the 30th anniversary of New York City's tortuous summer of 1977. Ungovernable. That was the prevailing wisdom about New York...more >

• JULY 10, 1977

  ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 5

  By HENRY HECHT

  SPARKY Lyle, superb out of the Yankees bullpen all season long, failed to preserve a late lead last night as the Bombers fell to the Orioles, 6-5, in Baltimore...more >

• HOW I HELPED PUT JUICE BACK IN THE BIG APPLE THE year was 1977 and I was run ning for mayor against Mario Cuomo, Mayor Abe Beame, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman Herman Badillo, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and Joel Harnett...more >

• JULY 9, 1977

  YANKEES 7, ORIOLES 5

  By LARRY BROOKS

  BALTIMORE-In the big innings, there is Thurman Munson. "I look for the ball with men on base," he says. "You know the biggest thing with all the trouble we've had...more >

• STRANDED REVELERS MADE IT PARTY TIME

  By MARIANNE GARVEY

  While much of the city was paralyzed by the fear of looters and arsonists during the 1977 blackout, some had not a worry in the world as they partied through the pitchblack night. Elaine’s...more >

• HEROES IN BLUE FOUGHT ANARCHY IT WAS the night of the animals, as a cop from the Ralph Avenue station house in Brooklyn told me on July 14, 30 years ago. On that day and days after it, there was no other way of saying it as...more >

• LIGHTS OUT FOR SUFFERING CITY

  BLACKOUT PUSHED N.Y. FROM HARDSHIP TO CHAOS

  By LEONARD GREENE

  This is the first part in a five- day series marking the 30th anni versary of New York City's disas trous summer of 1977. It wasn't the darkness - it was the despair. How...more >

• 'BRONX' CHEER

  GEORGE, BILLY, REGGIE AND THAT SUMMER OF '77

  By LINDA STASI

  July 9, 2007 -- IF you're old enough to remember the summer of 1977, you'll love a new miniseries premiering tonight on ESPN...more >

• JULY 8, 1977

  YANKEES 8, INDIANS 2

  By LARRY BROOKS

  BALTIMORE - Catfish Hunter implores his teammates to yell at him and Thurman Munson is happy to oblige. But don't be fooled: peace and wins are back home in the Bronx...more >

• JULY 6, 1977

  YANKEES 5, INDIANS 4

  By HENRY HECHT

  IN the Yankees' 81st game-half way home and they are in first place-Sparky Lyle pitched his 75th inning. Lyle has been in pro ball since 1964 and the most he's ever worked in one season is 114 innings. You've probably guessed by now; another Yankee starter didn't last very long...more >

• SUMMER OF '77

  FROM THE PAGES OF THE POST

  By HENRY HECHT

  Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating the...more >