num_pages: 392
description: Meet the Arkansas Reds, the oddest, craziest, rowdiest bunch of sluggers ever to step out of a dugout. The lineup consists of an ex-con first baseman named Hog, a couple of real Reds on loan from Castro, some young bucks on their way up and worn-out old-timers on their way down, a few wild Indians, a woman, a pitcher named Genghis Mohammad, Jr., and a lecherous knuckle-baller — all led by a one-armed Marxist and former major-leaguer named Lefty. Hog chronicles a season with the Reds as they travel from one seedy southern ballpark to another, always barely a step ahead of the small-town sheriffs and right-wing evangelists who think these motley minor-leaguers are an insult to “America’s game.”
language: English
title: The Dixie Association: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Dixie Association: A Novel (Voices of the South)
genres: Sports, Baseball, Fiction
ratings_count: 92
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Louisiana State University Press