Book #59: "Bottom of the 33rd"

As a child, my reading choices were almost exclusively fiction. The fact that my horizons are considerably broader now can be traced to the sports biographies I read (all of which will make an appearance here eventually. Someday. When I get farther in the alphabet than B.) For a while, they were the only non-fiction I was willing to attempt.

And it is one of those books that I was introduced to the topic of this particular volume: the longest game ever played in professional baseball. When this came in as an ARC, I immediately absconded with it.

(Incidentally, when I started this project, my intention was to start with the first book on the shelves and go straight through, But because of the way the library is organized, I would have had to go through all of non-fiction first, and I couldn't bring myself to do that. I'm better at it now, but not that much better! Anyway, had I done it that way, this would have been the first book I read instead of the 59th.)

Beautifully written and filled with fascinating information, humor and appearances by famous players (Bobby Ojeda, Bruce Hurst, Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr.), this is more than the story of a marathon. More than a Who's Who of future stars, More than a list of records set. It is a story about
baseball, and baseball is forever.

Author: Dan Barry

Potentially objectionable content: Fair amount of language