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The Complete Game:

Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching
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Random House Digital, Inc., Mar 9, 2010 - Sports & Recreation - 288 pages
World Series champion, former All-Star, and award-winning television analyst Ron Darling gives readers a inside look at one of the most demanding and strategic positions in all of sports: the pitcher. Drawing on vivid situations from his playing days for the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics, and from moments he has observed as a broadcaster, Darling offers an engaging look at the art, strategy, and psychology of pitching. Throughout, we get a glimpse of what it feels like to stand alone on the mound, the center of attention for thousands of fans. No other book examines the position in such compelling depth—The Complete Game will be an essential book for every fan and aspiring player.
  

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Review: The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound

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In a word: solid. In more words: Darling breaks 9 chapters out into "innings" - each chapter covering a different inning from a different game that he either pitched in or for which he was a ...

Review: The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound

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As a Mets fan I found the book gave insight about the metal preparation that it takes to be a pitcher rather than a thrower. I remembered the days when he was pitching for the Mets. It was a better time than today. Sometime it's fun to escape into the past.

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Contents

FIRST INNING
36
SECOND INNING
61
THIRD INNING
85
FOURTH INNING
101
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Ron Darling was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets from 1983 to 1991 and was the first Mets pitcher to be awarded a Gold Glove. Since 2006 he has been SportsNet New York’s game and studio analyst; since 2007 he has also been a game and studio analyst for TBS, for that network’s game-of-the-week and postseason broadcasts. Darling won an Emmy Award for best sports analyst in 2006. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended Yale University, where he was a two-time All-American. He currently lives with his family in Manhattan.

Daniel Paisner has collaborated with dozens of athletes, actors, politicians, and business leaders on their autobiographies and memoirs. He is coauthor of Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center with FDNY battalion commander Richard Picciotto and The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow with Krystyna Chiger.

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