{"product_id":"bottom-of-the-33rd-hope-redemption-and-baseballs-longest-game-9780062014498","title":"Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBottom of the 33rd\u003c\/em\u003e is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.\" --Jane Leavy, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSandy Koufax\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eBottom of the 33rd, \u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eBottom of the 33rd\u003c\/em\u003e is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America's pastime--and America's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarry, Dan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDan Barry is a reporter and columnist for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1994 he was part of an investigative team at the \u003cem\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/em\u003e that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on Rhode Island's justice system. He is the author of a memoir, a collection of his \u003cem\u003eAbout New York\u003c\/em\u003e columns, and \u003cem\u003eBottom of the 33rd\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he won the 2012 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Maplewood, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674619613458,"sku":"9780062014498","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a7652ec-acdb-4d16-81fd-f789b69ef1cf.jpg?v=1737243876","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bottom-of-the-33rd-hope-redemption-and-baseballs-longest-game-9780062014498","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}