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Donald Hays

Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans (Voices of the South) Paperback – November 1, 1997

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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."

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392 pages
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English
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LSU Press
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November 1, 1997
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5.51 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
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0807122262
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978-0807122266
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Donald Hays, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, is the author of The Hangman's Children, a novel, and the editor of Stories: Contemporary Southern Short Fiction.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (November 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807122262
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807122266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches

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Steven Torchia

More baseball, please

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2021

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A strange book, from what I read of it. The characters and situations seemed much older than the era of the early 1980s. When the protagonist asks a "loose" woman, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" I became disappointed that I even bought the book. Fewer musings, more baseball would have been appreciated.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2020

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If you like to route for the underdog and like all the technical aspects of baseball, you will like this book. Very talented author! Thank you for a great story Donald Hays!

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J. Woodward

Add a star to the review if you love baseball

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2016

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I like the author's ambition and the writing continues to rattle around in my head days later, which is usually a sign of strong writing, but I'm really not sure what to think about his book. Some of the passages are so charmingly, insightfully written--about southern American culture, baseball, love, prison, aging. Too many passages, however, go on too long or dig too deep or are too plain indulgent. The amount characters, subplots, and detours overload the work.

Don't read this book if you don't love or like baseball. Even in it's best literary moments, it doesn't transcend the sport.

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Marcia L

Fabulous Baseball Novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 25, 2013

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This novel is a wonderful story of a man who decides to let love in his life, mixed with a great story of minor league baseball. Don't miss his discussion about liking beginnings and endings.

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Waldo

Irreverent and hilarious

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2002

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What else can I say? Hog Durham's narrative is simply brilliant throughout the entire novel. Not only a great work of fiction, but very accurate with its baseball details as well. Not a novel for the thin-skinned.

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Manray9

Better than an RC Cola and a Moonpie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2013

Hay's "The Dixie Association" is a delightful read. It is hilarious, insightful and revealing. It's a picture of Southern life -- warts and all. Hays compares well with the late great Harry Crews as an accomplished writer of the distinctively Southern novel. If you love baseball and your culinary heritage features red-eye gravy, RC cola, grits and purple-hull peas, you'll enjoy "The Dixie Association."

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Cynthia L. Wood

One of the 7 best baseball novels EVER!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2018

I have been collecting novels that use baseball as a backdrop for 30 years, and this is in my top 7. Hays is a great writer, with passages that make you read them out loud or post them on Facebook. FYI, also in my top 6 are “Shoeless Joe” (W P Kinsella), “Things Invisible to See” (Nancy Willard), “Suder” (Percival Everett), “Last Days of Summer” (Steve Kluger), “The Natural” (Bernard Malamud) and my all-time favorite, “If I Never Get Back” (Darryl Brock). Used or new, buy them all!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2004

The Dixie Association was a well written and thought out novel, written by an author who knew how to grab his audiences attention. A baseball team full of rejects that noone wanted around and did not have any respect for, but they knew the game of baseball and that is what they all loved and it is all that mattered to them. Donald Hays writes the book through an ex-convicts eyes. With the rudeness, foul language, and racists remarks the author offends everyone. In all I really liked the novel and give it a thumbs up, cause I could actually read the book without dreaading it.

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