An enjoyable read and a great story, but Barry's prose is far too flowery (did we really need all those mentions of the ghost of Mayor McCoy?) for me to recommend this book too highly.

This book was incredibly written. If you're a fan of baseball, or how life is usually serendipitous, then this is a book you need to read. Baseball is said to be the tie that binds, and 33rd is a story that pulls you in and leaves you feeling like you were there for the longest baseball game in history.

This is a book for die-hard baseball fans. He tries to do more, showing how the lives of the many who never made it to The Show played out, but to stick it out, you need to be a baseball fan.

An excellent book that tells the story of baseball's longest game -- 33 innings, 32 of them on a cold night/morning in Pawtucket, R.I. -- through the history of the city, its ballpark, and its players. Well done.

Barry says in his acknowledgements that this is a work of imaginative non-fiction. That may be the perfect way to describe it. It's not so much a detailing of the longest game in history, but a rumination on player's thoughts, their histories, their lives, where they've come from and where we are all going as a nation. The history behind this game, the team members, the ball clubs, and the stadium is awe-inducing at times. If you're a baseball fan, this is a must-read; if you're not, then you should read it anyway.

Bleh. Boring.

Sports, plus religious allusions. The ball is life and the game is God testing you and blah blah blah. I'd rather read Jaden Smith's tweets.

A quick paced good read. It was interesting the way the author mixes the game and the life of the player, Dave Koza, who hit the winning single at the bottom of the 33 (Over Cal Ripken's head). The intertwined baseball and history is well done, and worth reading.

I'll be honest when I started this book I was not a fan. It seemed to meander through tangent after tangent and had little to do with the content of the actual game described.

Somewhere near the end of the normal 9 innings my mindset began to shift and I started to see the book as a collection of short stories threaded together by baseball's longest game. Once this switch flipped I immediately fell in love with the style and characters. I couldn't put it down as it started to become a wonderful representation of the sport and honestly life itself. We all have our own personal stories that we bring with us to the ballpark, or work, or wherever we go. Life is filled with a million stories in everyone you meet. Sometimes a few of those threads intertwine into a historic event like the worlds longest baseball game. The book challenges us to ask what is more important, the numbers of that game which will be recorded forever, or the lives that were involved with a ball field on a frigid Rhode Island night?

The author does a great job in tracking down the principal participants in the longest baseball game in professional baseball history. Their stories about the game and their lives are much more interesting than the game, which is the book's strength. The game was more than just a statistical oddity. It was an exercise in endurance. You get a feeling that you, like the players and umpires, were stuck in some sort of baseball purgatory.