The Last Nine Innings: Inside the Real Baseball Game Fans Never See - Perfect for Baseball Enthusiasts & Sports Lovers

A couple of years ago, when I started reading sports books again regularly, this book stunned me. I had thought I knew a lot of baseball, but this book gave me so much new inside information about how the game is played, I just couldn't believe. Right from the first paragraph, you learn why Steve Finley is one of the greatest fielding centerfielders in history, and how difficult it is to make "it look easy." It was fascinating - and very interesting - material.Baseball is a simple game understood by almost everyone, yet at the pro level, it is very complex. Author Charles Euchner explains just how complex, but it very readable form. His examples are the players participating in this seventh game of the 2001 World Series, featuring two of the best pitchers in the history of baseball: Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling. This almost a textbook on baseball....and a great read, certainly not dry.On the surface, you could easily skip this book because Yankee fans don't want to read about a loss, and there aren't enough Arizona fans to warrant this book being a best-selling. However, that's not the essence of the book: it's about what baseball is like at the dawn of the 21st century and you will learn more about the sport in this book than probably any other book you'll ever read about baseball.