2021-12-10
40 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Oxford.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is my fact,
my fact this week is that the longest professional baseball match on record only lasted so long
because the umpire's rule book was missing the bit that explained when a match should be stopped.
That's amazing.
I kind of think that an umpire should already know the rules by the time he's starting to umpire the game.
Yeah you would think.
Halfway through he shouldn't be going I'm just going to check.
Well this was unprecedented times in the baseball world so this was a match that was in April 18th 1981 it was the poor Tuckett Red Sox and they were playing the Rochester Red Wings and so these are smaller teams in a different league professional baseball players
though and poor Tuckett it was played there which is in Rhode Island.
Big deal for poor Tuckett because the newspaper the next day said not
since the time that they had to shoot the drunken camel at the 1981 1981 so it sounds like a weird match from ages ago but quite recently really at the start of the match there were 1700 fans watching by the time the game eventually ended which was 407 in the morning there were 20 people left watching still watching the match 20 which I feel it's quite a lot.
I read that some of them wear a sleep.
Oh okay well they all got given a season ticket so it paid off for them.
I think some of them got lifetime passes.
Yeah they did that's true so it was this is the longest baseball match on the world which is eight hours and 25 minutes it really isn't that long.
I think what makes it long.