Bottom of the 33rd : Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game eAudiobook MP3
by Dan Barry
Narrated by Dan Barry
eAudiobook MP3
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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
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.
On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys-the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves-two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game.
With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America's pastime-and America's past.
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- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:8 hours 36 mins
- File size:709.59MB
- Publisher:HarperAudio
- Publication Date:12/04/2011
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- ISBN:9780062068262
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Item not Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:8 hours 36 mins
- File size:709.59MB
- Publisher:HarperAudio
- Publication Date:12/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780062068262
