stackyFACTSIf you think modern baseball drags on forever, imagine sitting in the stands for eight unbroken hours of zeroes. In 1981, a minor league game in Rhode Island devolved into an agonizing thirty-three inning stalemate that had to be suspended at 4 AM simply because everyone was losing their minds.
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