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Hairs vs. Squares - The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72 (Hardcover)
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Hairs vs. Squares - The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72 (Hardcover)
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Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began
with the first major players' strike in the history of North
American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played
by two of the game's greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a
sign of the times it was Hippies vs. Hardhats, a clash of cultures
with the hirsute, mod Mustache Gang colliding with the clean-cut,
conservative Big Red Machine on the game's grandest stage. When the
Oakland A's met the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Fall Classic, more
than a championship was at stake. The more than two dozen
interviews bring to life a time when controversy was commonplace,
both inside and outside the national pastime. In baseball, Willie
Mays was traded, Hank Aaron was chasing down Babe Ruth's home run
record, and Dick Allen was helping to save the Chicago White Sox
franchise while winning the American League's Most Valuable Player
award. Outside the American pastime the war in Vietnam was raging,
campus protests spread throughout the country, and Watergate and
the Munich Olympics headlined the tumultuous year. The 1972 Major
League Baseball season was marked by the rapid rise of rookies and
young stars, the fall of established teams and veterans, courageous
comebacks, and personal redemptions. Along with the many
unforgettable and outrageous characters inside baseball, Hairs vs.
Squares emphasizes the dramatic changes that took place on and off
the field in the 1970s. Owners' lockouts, on-field fights, maverick
managers, controversial trades, artificial fields, the first full
five-game League Championship Series, and the closest, most
competitive World Series ever, combined to make the 1972 season as
complex as the social and political unrest that marked the era.
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