I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Thanx!

It sounds like an interesting premise and it is, but the execution...

It is all about the longest game in organized baseball history. But the game itself was not that interesting. Only a few runs scored. There are some future Hall of Famers in the game, but they didn't play an integral part.

Since there isn't that much of the game to write about (maybe 10% is about the actual game) it has to rely on the people and their backstories. It was obviously written knowing this is what the book would be about, not the game itself. But do we really want to know the backstory of the batboy, the owner, the coaches, the broadcaster, every player, their wives, the chairman of the league and (I am not kidding) the fans? I'm sorry, but their stories are what this book is built on and they simply aren't THAT interesting.

You could take this slice of life of virtually any setting and expand upon it like this, but the bottom line is 'Is it interesting'? Your opinion may differ, but in this case I'd have to say no.