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Bottom Of The 33rd LP: Hope, Redemption, And Baseball's Longest Game (2011)

by Dan Barry(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062065033 (ISBN13: 9780062065032)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperLuxe

review 1: Excellent! Full of history and stats and records, like so many baseball books, but also full of lots of stories of heartbreak and triumph. Gave me a great appreciation for just how rare and special it is for a guy to make it to the Big Leagues...and some depth and insight from some guys who never made it to the very top. And now I know who played in the longest game in baseball history, who won, and who knocked in the winning run...and extra-special for me personally, the Easter Sunday in 1981 when the game was played, was also my 11th birthday :)
review 2: Pandora kept hope at the bottom of her box because it was the most dreadful of the plagues the gods visited on suffering mankind.─ John C. Wright, The Golden AgeHope is what makes Baseball the game it i... mores. Everyone can play baseball to some extent and it is the sport that employs the most players thru the minor leagues. This is a book about hope. The hope of the players who through a fluke misprint in a league rule book played 32 inning in a triple a game one cold april Easter Saturday evening. the hope that they would win the game but most of all the hope that they would play one more level up in the majors. For some (Ripken, Boggs, Hurst, Ojeda, among others) that hope would become a reality. But for most it would a dream denied. Barry concentrated on these men who would come up just short of their dream but whose dedication to the game made them refuse to quit their pusuit of the dream and this historic game. It is the study of these men that brings this work up to the big leagues of great sports book. less

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