Dan Epstein is the author of the 1970s base­ball his­to­ries Big Hair and Plas­tic Grass: Base­ball and Amer­i­ca in the Swing­ing ​’70s and Stars and Strikes: Base­ball and Amer­i­ca in the Bicen­ten­ni­al Sum­mer of 1976. He writes about base­ball, music, and pop cul­ture for a vari­ety of out­lets, includ­ing Rolling Stone, Revolver, and The Jew­ish Dai­ly For­ward.