'Crowning glory' More male athletes find root of expression in their hair
December 15, 2004
USA Today
Nationwide
Hair-raising: Last season Johnny Damon, left, sported a caveman look, which inspired a hair renaissance for the Red Sox. First baseman Kevin Millar vacillated between a shaved noggin and a fuzzy yellow 'do. "Their hair made them so not the New York Yankees," musician Bob Cowsill says.
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The Red Sox adopted The Cowsill' 1969 multimillion selling hit Hair as one of their theme songs, and the team's public affairs department used it as background on a 90-second video montage of players' hairstyles. "It's the perfect theme song for them," says Bob Cowsill, whose family originally is from Newport, R.I., and grew up huge Red Sox fans. "Their hair made them so not the New York Yankees. They looked like an American Legion team. They were real people playing baseball."
The Red Sox invited the Cowsills to sing the national anthem - followed by Hair, of course - before the third game of the 2004 America League Championship Series. Cowsill says he's still fielding requests for both songs in Los Angeles-area pubs.
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