Whipped Cream Difficulties

By way of the LAT, we have learned of a new book: Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game by Dan Barry, a writer for the NYT.

Barry’s book is about the April 18, 1981 game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, which went for 33 innings, the longest game in baseball history.

We’re not sure if we’re going to purchase this or not. On the one hand, it does push some of our hot buttons (failure, Rhode Island). On the other hand, it sounds like the kind of lyrical baseball horseshit we hate. If any of our readers purchase and read Barry’s book, we’d welcome a review.

Edited to add: Lawrence pointed us to a review of a new Richard Feynman biography, Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science, by Lawrence M. Krauss. This is another book we’re not sure about purchasing: between Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, and No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman, we kind of feel the ground has been well covered. We are also slightly suspicious of anyone whose book credits include The Physics of Star Trek. On the other hand, the review (by noted SF writer Paul Di Filippo) is pretty favorable, so we may have to give this one a shot.