Big Hair And Plastic Grass Review

A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s and stars and strikes.

Big hair and plastic grass review.

He writes about baseball music and other cultural obsessions for a variety of outlets and. As dan epstein s enormously entertaining big hair and plastic grass. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s. Some of my favorite parts were the chapter on uniforms the account of the bull s big heart and.

Big hair and plastic grass by dan epstein softcover 340 pages 15 99 newly released in a softcover edition this rollicking 2010 retrospective subtitled a funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s looks at how the era s explosion of pop culture counter culture and sports culture created often spectacular fireworks on the baseball playing field. Big hair and plastic grass by dan epstein 2010 the cover of big hair and plastic grass featuring oscar gamble and his amazing afro. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for big hair and plastic grass. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s demonstrates the decade was colorful in many ways the game was populated by outsized weirdoes such as mark the bird fidrych the tigers pitcher who talked to his baseballs before throwing them i want to get it back in the ball bag and goof around.

Only someone who loves america could write this book. At it s best big hair and plastic grass is a stimulating succinct summary of the seventies. At it s worst it s a salacious slanted screed of same. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s kindle edition by epstein dan.

Baseball and america in the bicentennial summer of 76 both published by thomas dunne books st. The best parts make the book worthwhile but they also display how good the book could have been. Have to admit to being a bit underwhelmed by big hair plastic grass as a child of the 70s and one whose earliest baseball memories involve the cleveland indians blood clot uniforms the hirsute swingin a s the big red machine i was prepared to really enjoy this walk through this bizarre decade. Dan epstein is the author of big hair and plastic grass.

Big hair and plastic grass. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Richard throwing some heat for the astros in the late 1970 s.

Big hair and plastic grass. Kirkus reviews if jim bouton s 1970 memoir ball four was the book that showed what sex drugs and rock n roll were doing to pro baseball epstein s big hair and plastic grass is the book that shows what that 1970s brand of baseball did to the rest of us.