Big Hair And Plastic Grass Review

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.

Big hair and plastic grass review.

Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading big hair and plastic grass. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s kindle edition by epstein dan. At it s best big hair and plastic grass is a stimulating succinct summary of the seventies. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s by dan epstein.

Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. For many fans of a certain age the 7os are too quickly becoming the good old days. As dan epstein s enormously entertaining 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.

Baseball and america in the bicentennial summer of 76 both published by thomas dunne books st. Richard throwing some heat for the astros in the late 1970 s. A funky ride through baseball and america in the swinging 70s. Big hair and plastic grass.

Dan epstein is the author of big hair and plastic grass. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. 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. At it s worst it s a salacious slanted screed of same.

Only someone who loves america could write this book. He writes about baseball music and other cultural obsessions for a variety of outlets and. The best parts make the book worthwhile but they also display how good the book could have been. Some of my favorite parts were the chapter on uniforms the account of the bull s big heart and.

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