Bücher der Reihe Pitching for Sanity

Every small town has its eccentrics, its oddballs …… in Pearisville, it's Bill Barrister.He throws a baseball against a haystack in his back yard every day … just to keep from going crazy.Bill is a military veteran, a drunkard, a nervous wreck, living out his days in his boyhood home.An invitation to take a cross-country road trip with Godfrey, a high-spirited, hard-drinking, fun-lovingbuddy, might be just what he needs to shake off the anxiety, the panic-filled days of his drearyexistence.But is leaving the comfort, the familiarity of his hometown, a good idea, especially with a nutcase likeGodfrey? What misadventures await the two?This humorous, engaging story from baseball novelist Mike Reuther is the author at his best.Every small town has its eccentrics, its oddballs …… in Pearisville, it's Bill Barrister.He throws a baseball against a haystack in his back yard every day … just to keep from going crazy.Bill is a military veteran, a drunkard, a nervous wreck, living out his days in his boyhood home.An invitation to take a cross-country road trip with Godfrey, a high-spirited, hard-drinking, fun-lovingbuddy, might be just what he needs to shake off the anxiety, the panic-filled days of his drearyexistence.But is leaving the comfort, the familiarity of his hometown, a good idea, especially with a nutcase likeGodfrey? What misadventures await the two?This humorous, engaging story from baseball novelist Mike Reuther is the author at his best.

For generations, men have taken to the road to find themselves. This story picks up the second half of the road journey of Bill Barrister, in his youth a star baseball pitcher, but now a middle-aged man riddled with obsessive thoughts and anxiety, and his buddy, the carefree Godfrey, as they head farther west from their homes in Pennsylvania toward their ultimate destination in California. What are they really searching for out on the road? Adventure? Kicks? Perhaps love? As their journey proceeds across the Southwest, these two men with seemingly disparate personalities find they have more in common than they thought. A story of self-discovery, humor and the sort of colorful characters that set apart author Mike Reuther as a storyteller.