By May 13, 1974, Cleveland's civic optimism had long since passed. That night, the Indians beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1 in front of just 4,234 spectators. In Cleveland, a city in which spring ...

This story first appeared in New York’s issue of June 7, 1976, and was subsequently adapted into the film Saturday Night Fever. Twenty-one years later, in 1997, Nik Cohn admitted to ...