Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
A American, Pop Culture, History book. Made the 2012 baseball season bearable and made a great gift. This is not only an outstanding baseball...
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the '70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. Outspoken players embraced free agency, openly advocated drug use, and even swapped wives. Controversial owners such as Charlie Finley, Bill Veeck, and Ted Turner introduced Astroturf, prime-time World Series, garish polyester uniforms, and outlandish promotions such as Disco Demolition Night. Hank Aaron and Lou Brock set new heights in power and speed while Reggie Jackson and Carlton Fisk emerged as October heroes and All-Star characters...
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Made the 2012 baseball season bearable and made a great gift. This is not only an outstanding baseball book, this is, as advertised, a funky ride through America in the swinging '70s. For those of us who loved baseball and came of age during that decade, it all seemed normal. I ranged from 1st grade to freshman year of high school in... I have to give this four stars with a caveat: if you grew up loving baseball in the 70s you will love most everything about this book. If you do not care about either baseball or the 70s, well, don't read this. It will bore you to tears. But I loved it. All the main characters are here: the Oakland Swinging A's, the Big Red Machine,... This book reads like Epstein's research notes. Rather than do the author's task of finding an interesting STORY to tell and being selective about what he includes, he just dumps everything he can find in a big pile for you in chronological order. He doesn't identify a lot of themes, he doesn't focus too closely on any characters, he...
