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Amazon.com: Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game (9780062014481): Dan Barry: Books

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On April 18, 1981, a nut stake sprang ageless. What began as a modestly accompanied minor-league back betwixt the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not lonesome the longest e’er played in baseball story, but something else wholly. The kickoff slant was thrown abaft gloaming on Sanctum Saturday, and for the following eight-spot hours the nighttime seemed to freeze its participants betwixt their corporate pasts and futures, ‘tween their corporate sorrows and joys?the ballplayers; the umpires; Pawtucket’s ejected coach, peering done a hollow in the catcher; the sportswriters and broadcasters; a few hardy fans shaky in the insensate.

With Bottom of the THIRTY-THREE, historied New York Multiplication journalist Dan Barry has scripted a lyric speculation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of clock and community that conspired one portentous nighttime to create a baseball punt apparently without end. Bottom of the THIRTY-THREE captures the mutant’s perfume: the innocence of use, the looney adhesion to rules, the loyalty of both players and fans. This genre-bending hold, a reportorial jubilate, portrays the multitudinous lives held in the nighttime’s inexorable clutch. Think, for case, the squad possessor driven to recreate a debile bowl, reinforced atop a muddy bog, or the batboy upcoming humanity, aflutter and solemn, or the arbiter with a new folk and a new plate, or the wives observance or wait up, hearing to a radiocommunication program gaffe into airheaded enfeeblement. Regard the minor metropolis of Pawtucket itself, its ghosts and relics, and the players, two bound for the Anteroom of Celebrity (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), a few to turn but concisely or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, responsibility leap and truehearted to the punt.

An unforgettable portrayal of ambitiousness and survival, Bottom of the THIRTY-THIRD is the rarefied sports ledger that changes the way we comprehend America’s interest, and America’s by.


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