The Pride of the Bimbos

…he published his first novel, The Pride of the Bimbos, about a cross-dressing barnstorming softball team. A year later he won an O. Henry Award for his short story “I-80 Nebraska, m.490–m.205,” and he earned another in 1977 for “Breed.” Sayles’s second novel, Union Dues (1977), which follows a West…