Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

"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 

"What a book--an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making." --Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for  Let The Great World Spin 

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. In the tradition of Moneyball, The Last Hero, and Wicked Good Year, Barry's Bottom of the 33rd is a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.

Dan Barry published The New York Times' weekly column About New York from June 2003 to November 2006, and now writes This Land, a nationwide column for the paper. He was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2006 for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and life in New York City, and he shared the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting while working at the Providence Journal. He's also the author of Pull Me Up, a memoir. He was born in New York and raised on Long Island, and now resides in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his family.