I put his Stunt Cycle set on my Christmas list one year when I was a kid, but my mom shot me down.
"Why won't you buy it for me?" I asked her.
"Because Evel Knievel is an asshole," she replied.
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.