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Dan Epstein

Biography

Dan Epstein

Dan Epstein is an award-winning journalist, popculture 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.

Dan Epstein

Books by Dan Epstein

The Captain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thurman Munson
by Ron Blomberg and Dan Epstein - Memoir, Sports

As back-to-back No. 1 draft picks for the New York Yankees, Ron Blomberg and Thurman Munson made for an odd couple. One was a good-looking, gregarious kid from Atlanta who cheerfully talked anyone’s ear off at the slightest provocation; the other was a dumpy, grumpy dude from the Midwest rust belt who was about as fond of making idle chit-chat as he was of shaving. Despite the surface differences, the two men would form a close attachment as they ignited a youth movement with the 1970s Yankees. Now, over 40 years after Munson's shocking death in a plane crash at age 32, Blomberg opens up to author Dan Epstein about the beloved Yankees captain in an extraordinary memoir that reaches far beyond baseball. 

Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ‘76
by Dan Epstein - History, Nonfiction, Sports

As the nation saluted the 200th birthday of its independence in a spectacle of festivities, Major League Baseball players waged a war for their own liberties, demanding free agency. For both the nation and its national pastime, the year would turn out revolutionary, indeed. STARS AND STRIKES tracks the tumultuous year from White House to shorts-wearing White Sox, chronicling a time on the eve of the disco era, after which the sport and the nation would never be the same.