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Wednesday, September 6

I don't think so....

ALLIANCE, Neb. - Talk about extra innings. A baseball game that began at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Alliance ended Sunday at 4:05 p.m.
That's 30 hours and five minutes between the first pitch and the final out. Game organizers are counting on the contest being long enough to break a world record.
Forty players, ranging in age from 18 to 44, rotated in and out of the 84-inning game in hopes of setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest baseball game.
The record stands at 25 hours, set in Canada nearly three years ago.
Alliance organizers tried for a record last year, but their 24-hour, 16-minute game fell short of the record by 44 minutes.
Far from a pitcher's duel, this year's game was won by the Alliance Times-Herald Dragons, which beat the WESTCO Knights, by a score of 120 to 114.


Ok - here's the deal. This is NOT a legit world record... Why? Because there is no way that this game really went 84 innings according to the conditions set on baseball play. So inherently there are 9 innings in a ball game and extra innings are brought on by a tie at the end of the 9th. There is no way that these people kept getting ties at the end of freaking 75 innings - unless they threw the game and did it on purpose - and that is cheating and therefore doesn't count.
I guess there is nothing better to do in Alliance, Nebraska.

For a REAL record, check this out:
Oldest Baseball Player Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige pitched for the Kansas City A's (American League) at the age of 59 years and 80 days on September 25, 1965. His baseball career spanned 40 years although he was as famous for his showmanship on the field as he was for his pitching.

(please note: he played for the A's. Thank you very much.)

1 comment:

Mark Baker-Wright said...

in hopes of setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest baseball game.

This line itself seems to indicate the kind of "cheating" you describe.