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A review by underavioletmoon
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
5.0
I wish I could give this more than 5 stars. Like, maybe a gazillion?
I bought this because it's about the longest game ever played in professional baseball. 33 innings, I kid you not. And if that had been all the book was about, I would have been happy with it.
But, first of all, it is so well written, one of the best I've ever read in a life of reading A LOT!
Barry makes you see it, smell it, feel it. His sense of pacing is impeccable. For example, he'll introduce the next player up to bat -- and then go back and tell you a bit about how the player got there. Because, after all, what's the rush? We have 33 innings.
And it is about so much more than one baseball game -- indeed, about so much more than baseball. It's about hope and joy; sorrow and disappointment; dreams fulfilled and dreams abandoned. It is even, in one short, luminous passage, about the nature of time itself.
If you are a lover of both baseball and fine writing, this belongs on your bookshelf right beside the late, great Bart Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind." Yes, it is that good.
I bought this because it's about the longest game ever played in professional baseball. 33 innings, I kid you not. And if that had been all the book was about, I would have been happy with it.
But, first of all, it is so well written, one of the best I've ever read in a life of reading A LOT!
Barry makes you see it, smell it, feel it. His sense of pacing is impeccable. For example, he'll introduce the next player up to bat -- and then go back and tell you a bit about how the player got there. Because, after all, what's the rush? We have 33 innings.
And it is about so much more than one baseball game -- indeed, about so much more than baseball. It's about hope and joy; sorrow and disappointment; dreams fulfilled and dreams abandoned. It is even, in one short, luminous passage, about the nature of time itself.
If you are a lover of both baseball and fine writing, this belongs on your bookshelf right beside the late, great Bart Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind." Yes, it is that good.