27: Dan Barry, author, "Bottom of the 33rd"
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English - April 01, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSports sports literature writing longform interview interviews books nonfiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dan Barry joins JD to discuss his book, "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game". This year marks the 40th anniversary of the longest game in professional baseball history between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox. Barry's book explores the game, the lives it affected and how this random assortment of ballplayers found themselves making history in relative obscurity on a cold April night in 1981