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Big Hair And Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball And America In The Swinging '70s (2010)

by Dan Epstein(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312607547 (ISBN13: 9780312607548)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: 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 that decade. Only through time, social and personal perspective, do I have a sense of the sheer freakiness of that time: Vietnam and race riot angst, the hairs vs. the squares, crazy fads and fun. Epstein's book is not only informative and nostalgic about the way those times were reflected on and off the field and in the stands, it's a well-written and essential journal of pop culture and social history. This is definitely a multi-tool prospec... moret with a plus plus fastball and curve, to go with a great change up and offensive power to all fields. The season is a marathon and yet it ends too fast.
review 2: Too trippy and colorful a topic to completely botched but, in spots, it feels like Epstein's going to give it the old screw-up try. I loved the players, loved the era, groaned when the author hopped the guard rail and hurled himself onto the narrative field and forces the action through the "Don't forget I'm a liberal big-time BOOK author" sieve. Case in point: at the end, Epstein thanks Dock Ellis for teaching him how to "let my freak flag fly." Yeah—super-freaky, no doubt. Still: this is the funkadelic 70s baseball book, and it could reek worse. less

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