Today's Baseball Book Report is The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching by Ron Darling
Now this was the book that I was looking for. An insightful, informative, interesting read on what goes on between a pitcher's ears throughout the course of a game. Darling gives us a description of notable situations that he either experienced or observed as a broadcaster during his career as a starting pitcher for the New York Mets, Oakland A's and a memorable 12 inning outing as a college player at Yale.
By no means is this book for beginners, but at the same time, I felt this book organically worked through everything that Watching Baseball Smarter failed at, but with much more thoughtfulness, flow and attention to detail. I know that I'm not getting into much of the specifics on this one, but if I did, I feel like I'd be spewing out the details of the book verbatim, which would probably ruin your reading experience. Let me just say this: I couldn't stop reading this book. It was compelling and well written, an easy read (in a good way) and I pretty much read it cover to cover over the course of 2 days, so I will give 4 out of 5 baseballs.
