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A review by stellar_raven
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
4.0
*This review is based on a copy of the book I won through Goodreads FirstReads Giveaways.*
On Saturday, April 18th, 1981 a minor league baseball game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings began, and apparently refused to end. The two teams played on for over eight hours--and 32 innings--into early Sunday morning, before the game was halted and set to resume for one final inning some two months later.
This book is the story of that game, but it is also so much more. It's the story of the men who played the game as well as those who surrounded them (managers, umpires, bat boys, fans, etc.). It's the story of McCoy Stadium and it's the story of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
The personal stories of the players and all of those involved in this historic game are interspersed with the story of the game itself, and it's all done so eloquently that anything I write here will fail to do it proper justice.
There are the stories of guys who went on to Major League super-stardom, like Wade Boggs and Cal Ripkin, Jr., but there are also the heartbreaking stories of guys like Dave Koza and Win Remmerswaal and they're all woven together against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending game in such a way that I had tears in my eyes much of the time while reading it.
I highly recommend this book to any baseball fan.
On Saturday, April 18th, 1981 a minor league baseball game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings began, and apparently refused to end. The two teams played on for over eight hours--and 32 innings--into early Sunday morning, before the game was halted and set to resume for one final inning some two months later.
This book is the story of that game, but it is also so much more. It's the story of the men who played the game as well as those who surrounded them (managers, umpires, bat boys, fans, etc.). It's the story of McCoy Stadium and it's the story of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
The personal stories of the players and all of those involved in this historic game are interspersed with the story of the game itself, and it's all done so eloquently that anything I write here will fail to do it proper justice.
There are the stories of guys who went on to Major League super-stardom, like Wade Boggs and Cal Ripkin, Jr., but there are also the heartbreaking stories of guys like Dave Koza and Win Remmerswaal and they're all woven together against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending game in such a way that I had tears in my eyes much of the time while reading it.
I highly recommend this book to any baseball fan.