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 Anatishinsky

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. I kind of think that an umpire should already know

the rules by the time he's starting to umpire again. You would think you should halfway through,

he shouldn't be going on, I'm just going to chat. Well this was unprecedented times in the

baseball world so this was a match that was in April 18th 1981. It was the poor tucket red socks

and they were playing the Rochester Red Wings and so these are smaller teams and a different league

professional baseball players though and poor tuck it it was played there which is in Rhode Island

big deal for poor tuck it because the the newspaper the next day said not since the time that

they had to shoot the drunken camel at the city zoo has there been this much excitement in poor

tucket. Yeah but it was 1981, 1981 so it sounds like a weird match from ages ago 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 watch it still watching the match 20 which

I think it was quite a lot. I read that some of them were asleep. Oh okay well they all got

given a season ticket so it paid off for that. 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 it's quite long it's

a combination of cricket that's exactly exactly because all the writing up like there was a player

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