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37 items by Dan Epstein

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  High and Tight: Stars' Favorite Baseball Memorabilia | ARTICLE

  From home runs to whores, Babe Ruth put up some prodigious numbers in his day – and nearly 64 years after his demise, he continues to do so. In May, sports memorabilia auction house Lelands.com paid over...

  June 21, 2012 4:00 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Remember Dock Ellis and His LSD No-Hitter | ARTICLE

  Last Friday night, six Seattle Mariners pitchers combined forces to hurl a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers. A quirky affair, to say the least, the Seattle no-no was only the second in MLB history to require...

  June 13, 2012 12:50 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Name the Season's Biggest Surprises and Disappointments | ARTICLE

  Making pre-season predictions is a fool's errand, which may of course be why sportswriters are paid to do it. But two months into the 2012 season, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who thought things would be...

  June 7, 2012 9:00 AM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Go Balls to the (Outfield) Wall | ARTICLE

  Ever since the very first outfield fences were built, idiosyncratic ballpark dimensions have been an intrinsic part of baseball. No two major league ballparks ever looked, played or were laid out in exactly the same way, and...

  May 30, 2012 2:55 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts on the Biggest Ballpark Brawls | ARTICLE

  Thirty-six years ago this week, Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee – a free-spirited and outspoken cat dubbed "The Spaceman" for his out-there ways – found himself in a bizarre predicament, even by his own inimitable standards. Lying...

  May 23, 2012 1:45 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Pick the Best and Worst Big League Stadiums | ARTICLE

  In May 1976, my Dad took me to Detroit’s venerable Tiger Stadium for my first major league ballgame, a Sunday afternoon contest between the pre-"Birdmania" Tigers and the eventual AL champion Yankees. Though just a little over...

  May 16, 2012 1:00 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Discuss Uniforms – the Good, the Bad and the Fugly | ARTICLE

  Over a month into the 2012 season, it's still more than a little jarring to watch Miami Marlins home games on television. The fluorescent green walls of the new Marlins Park are rough enough on the eyes,...

  May 9, 2012 5:15 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Take On Pop Music at Ball Parks | ARTICLE

  Seventy-one years ago last week, workers dragged an organ into Wrigley Field before a Saturday afternoon contest between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals, hooked it up to the ballpark's P.A. system — and for...

  May 2, 2012 12:55 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Debate Pitch Counts and Complete Games | ARTICLE

  White Sox hurler Philip Humber's perfect game against the Mariners on Saturday was a rare event, indeed – not only was it just the twenty-first such performance in major league history, but it was also the first...

  April 25, 2012 12:00 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Choose the Best Baseball Movies of All Time | ARTICLE

  Thirty-six years ago this April, The Bad News Bears opened in theaters across the country, shocking and amusing audiences with its unbridled vulgarity, as well as its unflinching depiction of the ugly competitiveness at the heart of...

  April 18, 2012 12:00 PM ET
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  High and Tight: If Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Were Commissioner for a Day | ARTICLE

  This past January, baseball lovers everywhere groaned like Black Sabbath fans during a marathon of The Osbournes at the announcement that Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig had accepted yet another contract extension. While Selig might not be the...

  April 11, 2012 12:00 PM ET
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  High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Celebrate Opening Day | ARTICLE

  From Babe Ruth’s one-man brothel soirees to Dock Ellis’s LSD-assisted no-hitter, there’s always been something undeniably "rock & roll" lurking beneath baseball’s strait-laced surface. With Rolling Stone's High and Tight, we take a weekly...

  April 4, 2012 11:00 AM ET
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  Devo Evolve in California | ARTICLE

  Like at any proper cult gathering, it didn't take long before the faith of the assembly was called into question on this Sunday night: "How many of you believe de-evolution is real?" bellowed Devo's Gerald V. Casale...

  January 19, 2006 12:00 AM ET
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  Isleys Deliver Knockout Punch | ARTICLE

  "Every award we get, it means a lot to us," says Ronald Isley. "But one of the high accomplishments for us would be to get a Rolling Stone cover some day. When I see Puffy on the...

  August 13, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Ian Dury Dead at Fifty-Seven | ARTICLE

  Ian Dury, one of England's most beloved musical figures, died of cancer on Monday, March 27, at the age of fifty-seven. Best known for such irreverent songs as "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Sex and...

  March 27, 2000 12:00 AM ET
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  Earth, Wind and Fire Groove Into Hall | ARTICLE

  They've sold 25 million albums, received six Grammys and four American Music Awards. Their groundbreaking mixture of jazz, funk, soul and pop influences paved the way for artists from Prince to the Fugees, and proved that virtuosity...

  March 2, 2000 12:00 AM ET
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  Earth, Wind and Fire Founder Stricken With Parkinson's Disease | ARTICLE

  Maurice White, founder, producer and co-leader of the legendary R&B group Earth, Wind and Fire, told RollingStone.com today that he is suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Although the fifty-eight-year-old musician was originally diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disease...

  February 29, 2000 12:00 AM ET