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A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers (2002) (TV)
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22 July 2002 (USA)
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Baseball helps mend a city.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Cunningham | ... | Himself (Students Org. Against Racism 1964-67 / Detroit Resident) |
| Martha Reeves | ... | Herself (Martha and the Vandellas 1962-1972) |
| Joe Lapointe | ... | Himself (Usher, Tiger Stadium 1967-1969) |
| Herb Boyd | ... | Himself (Detroit Resident 1942-1985 / Instructor, Wayne State University 1965-1977) |
| Jim Northrup | ... | Himself (Detroit Tigers 1964-1974) |
| Thomas Sugrue | ... | Himself (Detroit Resident 1962-1980 / Author, The Origins of the Urban Crisis) |
| Damon Keith | ... | Himself (Michigan Civil Rights Committee 1964-1967) (as Hon. Damon Keith) |
| Isaiah McKinnon | ... | Himself (Detroit Police Officer 1965-1984) |
| Gates Brown | ... | Himself (Detroit Tigers 1963-1975) |
| John Conyers | ... | Himself (as Rep. John Conyers Jr.) |
| William Serrin | ... | Himself (Reporter, Detroit Free Press 1966-1977) |
| Neal Shine | ... | Himself (City Editor, Detroit Free Press 1965-1971) |
| George Cantor | ... | Himself (Sportswriter, Detroit Free Press 1966-1969 / Author, The Tigers of '68) |
| Jerry Lewis | ... | Himself (Detroit Resident) |
| Willie Horton | ... | Himself (Detroit Tigers 1963-1977) |
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This informative documentary takes a look at the 1968 Detroit Tigers and the team's effect on a torn and divided city after the explosive race rioting of 1967. Sporting only three blacks on the team the Tigers winning the World Series helps blacks and whites find common ground in putting their differences in the past. In 1968 Detroit was the nation's fifth most populous city and learning how to heal itself. Baseball fans and historians alike will find this hour documentary interesting.