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A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers. The true story of a team that helped heal a shattered city. Tuesday, July 30 at 10 pm.

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A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers. The true story of a team that helped heal a shattered city. Tuesday, July 30 at 10 pm.

I'm looking forward to watching that one. Especially to see how the great paradox therein is analysed: here was a city shattered enough that the Tigers' winning the Series should have been indeed a huge salve. So what did Detroit do when the Tigers nailed that triumph? They went out and upended the neighbourhood. Again. (Something that repeated itself even more when the Tigers won the big prize in 1984.)

I had the pleasure of visiting old Tiger Stadium for a game while I was traveling in 1998 (the Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds were doing a Negro Leagues tribute night, the Tigers in Detroit Stars uniforms and the Reds, the Kansas City Monarchs, I think they were wearing), and I found the natives to be quite civil and a delight to share a baseball game with. But I didn't have the heart to ask how such a seemingly civil city could break the neighbourhood over a pair of World Series wins.