He has contacts everywhere from Thibodeaux to Shreveport. The man from Gonzales thought the kid might be playing down in the Sugar Cane League and Latino knew Bill Causley, who runs the league. So when Latino got home that night he called Causley and asked him about the little leaguer he'd seen five or six years earlier. Latino drove to Gonzales and talked around. Gonzales is a city of about 16,000 off the Mississippi River.
Folks there work the fields or the plants up along the river.
There are a couple of juke joints, where you can envision Sonny Boy Williamson or Skip James. And there are a lot of sports. Sheets, the Olympic hero and the Brewers' prized rookie pitcher, is a Gonzales boy. Greg Nash is his nephew. He was always called Toe because he had such big feet, now size 18.