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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
By the way, has anybody read this? It looks interesting and it's on my short-term reading list:
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Unfortunately, and although at least some of you would probably think it's great, I couldn't get into this book. It is literally a blow-by-blow (swing-by-swing?) story of the longest professional baseball game in history: Triple-A Rochester Red Wings at the Pawtucket Red Sox, April 18–19, 1981, 32 innings before finally being suspended just after 4am. The resumption in June took only one inning for the Red Sox to finally win it in the 33rd inning, 3-2.
If you are into minor league baseball, give the book a try. I wanted to like it but the
details, including sketches of dozens of ballplayers and other people involved, just shut me down. Frankly, the interesting things about that game and some of the players in it like Wade Boggs and Cal Rikpen Jr., you can get from reading
Wikipedia.