{"product_id":"books-bottom-of-the-33rd-by-dan-barry","title":"Bottom of the 33rd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769649422609,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780062014498.jpg?v=1783952112","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-bottom-of-the-33rd-by-dan-barry","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}