Going the Distance

His major league baseball dreams dashed, a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision.Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Literary CategoryFinalist for the 2013 CASEY Award presented by Spitball: The Literary Baseball MagazineGoing the Distance is a baseball novel with a difference; a multilayered love story, a celebration of both America's game and the New York landscape. John Jack Flynn was a major league pitcher with all-star promise. But on the day of the 1979 All-Star game, he finds himself back in the North Country of New York where he was born, his career cut short by an injury, no recollection as to how he came to be back there with a beautiful woman he doesn't recognize beside him in the passenger seat of his car. The mystery of this passenger is but the first of many mysteries in this richly poetic, deeply moving, and sometimes comic novel.>Michael Joyce is Professor of English and Media Studies at Vassar College. He is the author of many books, including Disappearance, Liam's Going: A Novel, and Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions, also published by SUNY Press. He lives along the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York.