1985 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for Best Book (nominee)
An account of a season with baseball team, the Arkansas Reds. Their line-up includes an ex-con first baseman, a couple of real Reds on loan from Castro, young bucks on the way up and old-timers on the way down, all led by a one-armed Marxist and ex-major leaguer named Lefty.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for Donald Hays's The Dixie Association