Journeymen

A comic but poignant novel, Journeymen is based on the postwar days of minor league baseball when it was commonplace for former major leaguers to play out their careers in lowly Class D leagues. Among them, Jake Powell and Myril Hoag-a pair of ex-World Champion Yankees-languished with the Gainesville G-Men in 1948, as they clung to their cherished game and rollicking lifestyles. Using these journeymen and their hardscrabble lives as a historical backdrop, author Michael Rychlik has penned a heartfelt love story about an aspiring sportswriter named Jersey Paige who is trying to overcome his father's political legacy by pursuing a byline, a feisty Greek girl, and personal freedom.