Bottom of the 33rd
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“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax “What a book—an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making.” —Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let The Great World Spin From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. In the tradition of Moneyball, The Last Hero, and Wicked Good Year, Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd is a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.
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Dan Barry finds the meaning behind all of the details in this otherwise meaningless game – a minor-league baseball game that would blend in with the hundreds of other games in the dozens of other seasons, except that it became the longest game in professional baseball history. The factors that had to coincide to lead this game to seemingly never end are remarkable. But what made this book so enthralling is the masterful way Barry weaved together stories about all of the people involved. As a batter walked up to the plate, we learned how he got to this place, and, with the benefit of 30 years of hindsight, we also were able to see what significance this game would have in the player's or manager's or fan's lives. Beautifully done.
