and they say games are too long today?

All you baseball history junkies should check out this story by Dave Sheinin that appeared in the Washington Post the other day.

It marks the 25th anniversary of the longest recorded baseball game, a 33-inning, eight-and-a-half-hour minor league marathon between the Red Sox and Orioles AAA affiliates. Among the participants were future Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. and Wade Boggs (the article notes that Boggs was 22 when the game began and 23 when it finished; the game was called at 4 am and resumed several months later), and noteworthy names like Rich Gedman, Marty Barrett, Bobby Ojeda and Bruce Hurst.