Dirty Rice

Author: Gerald Duff
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B007TM7QLI

Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League (Lousiana Writers Series)

In the midst of the Great Depression, minor league baseball thrives in small-town South Louisiana, where the Evangeline League, named in honor of Longfellow's heroine, draws hundreds to dirt fields and grandstands in places like Jeanerette, Abbeville, and Opelousas. Get Dirty Rice literature books for free.
In 1935 Gemar Batiste, a talented young pitcher from Texas, is recruited to try out for the Rayne Rice Birds, makes the roster, and immediately begins garnering fame for himself, his team, and the league.

But Gemar is not the same as his teammates and opponents, and his skills on the diamond cannot erase those differences. He grew up on a reservation in Texas, an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dreaming of hurling strikes in the big leagues. During his season with the Rice Birds, Check Dirty Rice our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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