Sticking To My Naugahyde Bubble

05/26/2011

Sticking To My Naugahyde Bubble

"Look, Mommy — I found this baseball card in my cereal box! Why are the walls moving and changing colors?"

Anyway, speaking of the late, great Dock Ellis and all things 70s baseball, I'd like to give a grateful tip of the Monstanto Toupee to Tom Jackson of Cornbelt Baseball, who not only wrote a rave review of Big Hair & Plastic Grass, but gave me some very good interview questions to riff off of. You can read the piece here — which includes my list of the Top 5 books that anyone interested in delving further into the magic and madness of 70s baseball should read, as well as a few hints about what my next book is (and isn't) going to be about...

Posted at 04:03 PM in Baseball Cards, BIG HAIR & PLASTIC GRASS Updates & Events, Freaky Shit, Hair, Personalities, Uniforms | Permalink

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Dan Epstein

Dan Epstein is the author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s and Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76, both published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. He writes about baseball, music and other cultural obsessions for a variety of outlets and publications. He lives in Southern California, and is available for speaking engagements.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

05/26/2011