The Diamonds of Dixie: Travels Through the Southern Minor Leagues

by Ernest J. Green

This is Green's charming account of his 17,000 mile odyssey through the South to see what remained of minor league baseball.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 1995

Reviews

[Fred Daly · Rating 3 out of 5]

My sister gave this to me almost thirty years ago. The author spent a summer driving around the South going to minor league games and trying to figure out how much of traditional Southern culture remained. He intersperses the details of the journey with digressions about baseball and local history, and one memorable episode when he goes fishing with two . . . characters. Most of these are fun, but at times he gets bogged down with trivia -- I didn't need to know about the kind of roof covering the grandstand at each ballpark, or about the exact outfield dimensions.