The Dixie Association
By: Donald Hays.
Edition: LSU Press ed.
Series: Voices of the South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Baseball players -- Fiction.; Baseball teams -- Fiction.; Arkansas -- Fiction.
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."