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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages259
  • Published2010
  • File size1.6 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780062014481

Key ideas from the book

  • The book recounts the longest game in baseball history.
  • It highlights the intensity of a prolonged baseball contest.
  • It brings attention to the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues.
  • It connects the players’ aspirations with the ideal of the American Dream.

About Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry

Dan Barry recounts the longest game in baseball history, focusing on the intensity of the contest and the minor-league players at its center. The account presents the game as a window onto baseball and the aspirations associated with the sport.

Published in 2011, this work of narrative nonfiction will appeal to readers interested in baseball history, minor-league baseball, and sports journalism. It also considers the American Dream through the perseverance of players in the minors.

About Dan Barry

Dan Barry is an American journalist and author best known for his long career at The New York Times, where he reported on national life and wrote the “This Land” column. His books include Bottom of the 33rd, about the 1981 minor-league baseball game that became the longest in professional baseball history, and The Boys in the Bunkhouse, which recounts the exploitation of men with intellectual disabilities in Iowa. His work often brings attention to overlooked communities and the forces shaping…

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