On 3/9/25 9:27 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

"Here's an example: we always went to day games.  One game lasted
14 innings.  Many years after that game (in 1969), I looked up the
box score on BaseballReference.com.  It lasted 5 hours and 1
minute, at a time the average 9-game lasted about 2:30.  We stayed
the entire time because he knew I wanted to.  I think I did
understand it then.  I certainly did understand it 'later on' and
now."

That reminds me of a Red Sox game in the sixties that ran into many
extra innings. In those days, commercials were on their own tapes, or
something like that, and the TV crew had packed away all but two of the commercials, thinking the game would be over soon. They showed those two commercials over and over. I'll never forget the carnivorous "Walla
Walla" plant, though I don't remember what it was advertising.

Maybe we're talking about the same game.




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Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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In article <vqk65k$onbu$1@dont-email.me>, garym@mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
wrote:

That reminds me of a Red Sox game in the sixties that ran into many
extra innings. In those days, commercials were on their own tapes, or something like that, and the TV crew had packed away all but two of
the commercials, thinking the game would be over soon. They showed
those two commercials over and over. I'll never forget the
carnivorous "Walla Walla" plant, though I don't remember what it was advertising.

In the UK, Channel 5 for many years showed games live over night. It was fronted in London by an American ex pat and an Englishman. One year a
playoff game went to extra innings. It finished about seven in the
morning in the UK. (My recording stopped long before the end.) The
Englishman was due to front a quiz show in Bristol that lunchtime. He'd
long missed his train, but somehow he got there and did the show.

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