Bottom of the 33rd
Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2011
272 pages
978-0-06-207902-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 KoufaxWhat a bookan exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making. Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let The Great World SpinFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball historya 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, Barrys Bottom of the 33rd is a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Innings 1 to 9
- Innings 10 to 21
- Innings 22 to 32
- Inning 33
- Thirty Years Later
- Excerpt from The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- ONE
- Sources, Thank-yous, And Cracker Jack
- Official Box Score
- About the Author
- Other Books by Dan Barry
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
