Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76 by Epstein, Dan
Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76 by Epstein, Dan

Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76

Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball...
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Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76 by Epstein, Dan

Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76

BD$44.96
Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76 by Epstein, Dan

Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76

BD$44.96
Author: Dan Epstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with Stars and Strikes, a riotous look at the most pivotal season of the decade.

America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial celebrations and presidential primaries, of Olympic glory and busing riots, of killer bees hysteria and Pong fever. For both the nation and the national pastime, the year was revolutionary, indeed. On the diamond, Thurman Munson led the New York Yankees to their first World Series in a dozen years, but it was Joe Morgan and Cincinnati's Big Red Machine who cemented a dynasty with their second consecutive World Championship. Sluggers Mike Schmidt and Dave Kingman dominated the headlines, while rookie sensation Mark The Bird Fidrych started the All-Star Game opposite Randy Junkman Jones. The season was defined by the outrageous antics of team owners Bill Veeck, Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, and Charlie Finley, as well as by several memorable bench-clearing brawls, and a batting title race that became just as contentious as the presidential race.

From Dorothy Hamill's wedge haircut to Kojak's chrome dome, American pop culture was never more giddily effervescent than in this year of Jimmy Carter, CB radios, AMC Pacers, The Bad News Bears, Rocky, Taxi Driver, the Ramones, KISS, Happy Days, Hotel California, and Frampton Comes Alive!--it all came alive in '76!

Meanwhile, as the nation erupted in a red-white-and-blue explosion saluting its two- hundredth year of independence, Major League Baseball players waged a war for their own liberties by demanding free agency. From the road to the White House to the shorts-wearing White Sox, Stars and Strikes tracks the tumultuous year after which the sport--and the nation--would never be the same.

Author: Dan Epstein
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 02/09/2016
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250072542

About the Author
DAN EPSTEIN is an award-winning journalist, pop culture historian, and avid baseball fan who has written for Rolling Stone, SPIN, Men's Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, MOJO, Guitar World, Revolver, LA Weekly and dozens of other publications. He is the author of the acclaimed Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
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