Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s

5 best books like Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s (Dan Epstein): The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, A Little Hatred, Ball Four, The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth

Author	Leigh Montville
ISBN	0385514379

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of...

A Little Hatred

Author

Joe Abercrombie

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...

Ball Four

Author	Jim Bouton
ISBN	0020306652

Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball...

The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones

Author	Rich Cohen
ISBN	0804179239

A panoramic narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of Vanity Fair contributor Rich Cohen, who traveled with the band in the 1990s as a reporter for Rolling Stone.

Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the...

Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s

Author	Jason Turbow
ISBN	0544303172

How the Oakland A's of the 1970s—a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers—won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age

The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative team in baseball history. Never before had an entire organization...