The Dixie Association (Voices of the South)

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Summary: So far it's Great!!!!
Review: This book is a great baseball story. It brings out every emotion. It keeps the reader in suspense. I can't seem to put it down!!!

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Summary: You just keep or reading and reading.
Review: This is one of the best sports related books I have read in a long time. Being that I am involved in baseball and know some of what happens behind the scenes, I can relate to some of the actions. All the ups and downs of a season and even the adjusting to playing with a girl on the team. I commend Donald Hays for writting such a great book.

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Summary: One of the all times greatest books I've ever read.
Review: This is without a doubt, one of the best books ever written, on any subject. It's a shame that Mr. Hays doesn't have a whole catalogue of novels to his credit.

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Summary: Baseball and beyond.
Review: This was one of the most entertaining books I have ever read. Although the story is played out in a baseball environment, you really don't have to be a baseball fanatic or even a sports fan to get caught up in the drama and exicetment of this novel. The main characters are all well depicted and they each have conflicts they must resolve both on the baseball field and in society. There is a quagmire of underlying themes, and you can't help but become intrigued with at least one aspect of this story.

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Summary: Smooth, fun, and I wish it hadn't ended
Review: Well, it seems that everyone that has reviewed this book has given it really high marks and it is no wonder. The characterization is profound and at a very high level. It's less like it was written than it was seen and transcribed. Skip Hays uses baseball as a forum, as a war, to talk about rascism, classism, and redemption. It's not preachy though, and one of my favorite characters was the rascist knuckleball pitcher, Bullet Bob.

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Summary: Irreverent and hilarious
Review: 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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Summary: Irreverent and hilarious
Review: 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.