If you got a gift card this year or if Santa's coming late to your house and you call yourself any kind of baseball fan, you should try and get your hands on the incredible World Championship Limited Edition of ESPN's The Bronx is Burning. Forget all those stories about The Mitchell Report and ignore the final weeks of the NFL season, The Bronx is Burning will take you back to a time when sports were pure. When no one knew what HGH was and more people were concerned about Reggie Jackson's position in the lineup or if George Steinbrenner might fire Billy Martin that week. The Bronx is Burning tells the tale of the New York Yankees' legendary 1977 season, when the team struggled and fought all year long but somehow found a way to bring it all together in time to win the World Series. Jackson became Mr. October and the very public spats between Steinbrenner and Martin became world famous. That also happened to be the 'Summer of Sam,' when a serial killer terrorized the city. It was a year that most New Yorkers will never forget.

Starring Oliver Platt as Steinbrenner, John Turturro as Martin, and Rescue Me's Daniel Sunjata as Jackson, The Bronx is Burning works surprisingly well when it keeps its focus on baseball. Over the course of eight episodes, originally broadcast on ESPN, the story of The Bronx is Burning often switches to the two other major events in New York that summer, 'The Son of Sam' killings and the controversial race for Mayor of NYC, the first through reenactments and the second through archival footage. None of the non-baseball elements of Bronx work in the slightest and it seriously hampers the first half of the mini-series from the great project that it could have been. Luckily, the creators place a large majority of the emphasis, especially in the final episodes, on what was going on behind-the-scenes of that New York Yankees team and that's worth seeing if just for the award-worthy work by Turturro and the typically excellent performance from Platt.

The World Championship Limited Edition is such an impressive gift set for a Yankees fan that it wouldn't matter if the mini-series itself was absolutely horrible. We'd still recommend it just for its quantity and quality of Yankees material. First, you get an exclusive 1977 World Series Championship Hat and team photo from that year. The mini-series is spread out over two discs, but the Limited Edition comes with three more discs of content of special features that will blow any baseball fan's mind. The standard box set material like deleted scenes and featurettes are included, but there's an amazing amount of baseball-fan material including all of game 6 of the 1977 World Series and box scores and stats from all of your favorite Yankees from that year. If you were a Yankees fan in 1977, you can put on your hat and relive that year complete with interviews, stats, featurettes, an actual game from the Series, and an eight-episode mini-series. What more could a Yankees fan ask for? Except another World Series ring, of course.