Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
- ISBN-10
- 1250007240
- ISBN-13
- 9781250007247
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-05
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Dan Epstein
Description
A pop-culture history of baseball in the 1970s cites the advent of the free agency, advocated drug use, and garish promotional events while describing the contributions of figures from Ted Turner to Reggie Jackson.
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