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About two hours from Detroit and Cleveland, past Toledo's Soul City House of God and Ribs Ltd., lies Lucas County Recreation Center, a humble Midwestern oasis of baseball, hot dogs and organ music, where the Mud Hens struggle with the likes of Pawtucket and Tidewater in a battle to make the International League playoffs. And people starved for the national pastime and disinterested in the major league squabbling are lining up to watch these Mud Hens play...
First Baseman Dave Koza did not get to bed on April 18. That night, Koza and his teammates on the Class AAA Pawtucket (R.I.) Red Sox began the longest game in the history of professional baseball, an 8-hr. 7-min., 32-inning endurance contest with the visiting Rochester (N.Y.) Red Wings. The game was finally called at 4:09 the next morning with the score tied 2-2. Since then, Koza, 26, has caught up on his sleep-and spun a few dreams. "I've been thinking about being the hero," Koza said...
...dream came true. When the game was resumed in Pawtucket last week, it took only 18 minutes to finish. Koza hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd to drive across the winning run. At least 13 records were set in the game, and Koza's bat (he was 5 for 14) will be enshrined at Cooperstown, N.Y. Said Koza: "I guess this is the only way I'll make it to the Hall of Fame...
...over till it's over," Yogi Berra once remarked of baseball games. And this one isn't over yet. After 8 hr. 7 min. and 32 innings, the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League's Class AAA set the record for the longest game in the history of organized baseball, in both innings played and time elapsed. Suspended at 4:07 Easter Sunday morning with the score tied 2-2, the game will resume June 23. Of the original crowd of 1,740 fans only 47 were still on hand...
Item: The Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings play a 32-inning game in Pawtucket, the longest ever...