In 1909, Pittsburgh Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss may have provided the first full-scale fireworks show to accompany a major league baseball game -- a rarity in the dead-ball era, of course, because games were played in the day. Since then, however, pyrotechnics are an institution in all varieties of American sports. My feature for ESPN.com:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=williams-110701_sports_fireworks
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