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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Bottom of the 33rd Hope Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game
Author: Dan Barry
On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely. — The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and for the next eight hours the night seem...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780062014498
ISBN-10: 0062014498
Publication Date: 3/27/2012
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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As a baseball fan I was eager to read about the longest game in the history of baseball. Barry did a decent job of describing the atmosphere of a cold minor league game but he was too often guilty of purple prose. It seems that Barry is in love with his own prose as his use of hyperbole often bordered on the ridiculous. I found the story interesting but the writing distracting and unpleasant.


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