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A review by nomadtla
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
5.0
I'll be honest when I started this book I was not a fan. It seemed to meander through tangent after tangent and had little to do with the content of the actual game described.
Somewhere near the end of the normal 9 innings my mindset began to shift and I started to see the book as a collection of short stories threaded together by baseball's longest game. Once this switch flipped I immediately fell in love with the style and characters. I couldn't put it down as it started to become a wonderful representation of the sport and honestly life itself. We all have our own personal stories that we bring with us to the ballpark, or work, or wherever we go. Life is filled with a million stories in everyone you meet. Sometimes a few of those threads intertwine into a historic event like the worlds longest baseball game. The book challenges us to ask what is more important, the numbers of that game which will be recorded forever, or the lives that were involved with a ball field on a frigid Rhode Island night?
Somewhere near the end of the normal 9 innings my mindset began to shift and I started to see the book as a collection of short stories threaded together by baseball's longest game. Once this switch flipped I immediately fell in love with the style and characters. I couldn't put it down as it started to become a wonderful representation of the sport and honestly life itself. We all have our own personal stories that we bring with us to the ballpark, or work, or wherever we go. Life is filled with a million stories in everyone you meet. Sometimes a few of those threads intertwine into a historic event like the worlds longest baseball game. The book challenges us to ask what is more important, the numbers of that game which will be recorded forever, or the lives that were involved with a ball field on a frigid Rhode Island night?