September
28, 2007
Back in the 2005 MLB Playoffs,
Houston and Atlanta took the field
in NLDS Game 4 from Minute Maid
Park. They proceeded to play
18 innings of baseball before Chris
Burke hit a solo homerun to end
it and send the Astros to the NLCS
to face the Cardinals.
If you’re anything like
me, you were probably sitting there
watching both teams struggle to
plate one run, thinking to yourself “this
has to be getting close to the
longest game of all time, right?”
Well it wasn’t. Not
even close, really.
According to the Guinness Book
of World Records, the longest baseball
game ever played was played September
6, 2006 in Alliance, NE when the
Alliance Times-Herald Dragons edged
the WESTCO Knights 120-114 in 84
innings. The game took over
30 hours. Sure it wasn’t
for the right to go to the NLCS,
but that’s still an awful
lot of baseball.
On October 13th, a local St. Louis
group has plans on hauling that
record
into the Gateway City.
 Organizers
are planning a 32 hour marathon
baseball game to be held at TR
Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon,
MO. First pitch is scheduled
for 8:00am on Saturday, with the
final pitch expected somewhere
around 4:00 the following afternoon.
The event will benefit Gene Slay’s
Boys Club of Missouri and the teams
will pay tribute to two teams of
St. Louis past by donning the uniforms
of the Negro League’s St.
Louis Stars and 1944 American League
Champion St. Louis Browns.
If you’re ready to watch
some baseball – and we mean
really ready to watch some baseball – head
out to TR Hughes on October 13
and watch history being made for
a good cause.
Let’s just hope they don’t
go into extra innings.
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