One of the Boys — David Mark

About the Book Baseball is life to Matthew Brady (Matty) Johnson. Unconditionally released to end a 19-year career as a pitcher that assures him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, he does not want to go gentle into that involuntary death-in-life. In three searing, confessional off-season appearances before boosters, young athletes and a hometown crowd, he reveals the total story of his inner and outer life in baseball: the search for an illusional perfection, with two broken marriages in its wake; the unfulfillments of sex and celebrity; camaraderie and antagonism in locker rooms and dugouts; competition on the field turned dangerous and deadly; the power and the glory, and the humiliations, of being king of the hill. What secret did his all-time great manager fail to share with him? Who is that dim figure out of his past who brought him down so low? And will he stay down? Read on...Author Biography: About the Author David Mark is a New York novelist and playwright, with four previous adult novels to his credit. THE LONG CHANCE (Messner) was called the most compelling exposition of obsession since The Lost Weekend. One reviewer saw THE SUMMER SOLDIERS (Doubleday) as a beautiful and timeless novel; another, as a roistering and tender story. A Washington Post review of THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Doubleday) concluded that Admirers of J.T. Farrell and Bernard Malamud will recognize special merits in this work. In his New York Times review of AND WHERE IT STOPS NOBODY KNOWS (Doubleday), noted author William Lindsay Gresham wrote: David Mark's carnival midway is a surrealist landscape... sharply observed... written with expert suspense.