Ballplayer Pride

03/18/2012

Ballplayer Pride

A funky birthday shout-out to another entertainer with a baseball past: Country star Charley Pride, who had his biggest hits in the 1970s (including "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin," "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone" and "I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me"), and played ball in the Negro Leagues and the Yankees and Reds farm systems in the 50s and 60s. Here's Charley in the late 70s, wearin' a sweet leisure suit and patterned shirt combo (and sportin' the most happenin' afro in country music history), shootin' the shit with Twins manager Gene Mauch.

Posted at 01:01 PM in Hair, Music, Personalities, Uniforms | Permalink

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Dan Epstein

About Me
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 Greensboro, NC, and is available for speaking engagements.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

03/18/2012