Roy's future SPOILERS

In high school english we read the book and we saw the movie. Anyway, the book ends differently from the movie. In the book Roy does not hit a home run complete with fireworks show and become a great hero like he does in the movie. Instead, in the book he strikes out and its revealed in the papers about his injury from having been shot all those years ago and also about him being paid to throw the game. So the book ends with the assumption that Roy will be banned from professional baseball and that he has nothing left. The book ending is much darker than the movie ending. Anyway, my english teacher said that in the book he has one thing going for him, he has Iris. If he can get over the fact that she is a grandmother he can pursue a future with her and with their child that she will be having.