Thom reviewed Stars and Strikes by Dan Epstein
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3 stars
Unlike Epstein's previous book, Big Hair and Plastic Grass, there is almost too much baseball in here. The rest of the book is an excellent survey of 1976, from politics to music to the Bicentennial, and generally well done.
Too much baseball, you ask? Instead of a few anecdotes about a team, Dan digs into many of the teams each month, highlighting a few games and providing quotes from the players and sports writers involved. Most have a certain repetitiveness to them, each reading like a press release.
Fortunately, they all don't. This was the magical season of the Bird, the prime of Thurman Munson, and the twilight of Hank Aaron. Seattle's lawsuit and Labatt's Blue Jays also make an appearance. There was definitely a lot I enjoyed.
Just not all of it.