Description from Goodreads: "On April 18, 1981, a
ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league
game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became
not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else
entirely. The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and
for the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants
between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective
sorrows and joys—the ballplayers; the umpires; Pawtucket's ejected
manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and
broadcasters; a few stalwart fans shivering in the cold. Bottom of the 33rd captures the sport's essence: the
purity of purpose, the crazy adherence to rules, the commitment of both
players and fans. This genre-bending book, a reportorial triumph,
portrays the myriad lives held in the night's unrelenting grip."
Watch a CBS News feature about the game featuring Dan Barry.