Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game

ISBN: 0062065033

Author: Barry, Dan

Condition: New

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 book-an 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 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, Barrys Bottom of the 33rdis a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.