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	Longest game in baseball history - BR Bullpen
		The longest game in professional baseball history occured in 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings of the International League at Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium and lasted 33 innings.
		Aponte reasoned that the news of the game would be in the Sunday's papers, but its length meant that the game was still ongoing at press time and news of the game was not published until the Monday of the game.
		In addition to the historic nature of the game, the game attracted attention as the second part was played during the 1981 Major League Baseball player's strike, and the media who were eager to cover any baseball.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Longest_game_in_baseball_history (1847 words)

	The Longest Day (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Longest Day is the name of a 1980 board wargame by Avalon Hill which simulates the D-Day invasion and subsequent Normandy breakout.
		It is a "monster game" meaning the map is very large, there are 1,600 game pieces, and the rules are very complex.
		The game is known for its historical detail, the Germans for example contain hundreds of pieces, most being unique for each historical unit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Longest_Day_(game) (140 words)

	NBA.com: The Longest Day
		While the Suns regrouped and the fans were separated from the court, the Celtics were notified that the game was not yet over.
		The Suns took their positions on the court, which was surrounded by a human wall of police and anxious fans, and Perry was handed the ball.
		After the game, Heinsohn collapsed in the locker room and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he spent the rest of the night.
	www.nba.com /encyclopedia/finals/game5_1976.html (1744 words)

	Hooked on Games? So are we, lets talk!
		I haven’t played many adventure games, I really don’t like the pace at which everything happens, you could be stuck someplace because you dropped the seemingly useless key you had picked up thirty hours ago and so you have to begin the whole game again.
		While it is your standard game with tons of box pushing and talking to people and solving puzzles, you will find that most of the puzzles are made only to advance the story and characters are interesting enough and fun enough to keep you playing till the end.
		There are box puzzles, "cell phone" puzzles where you have to match a pattern in the lower part of your screen with a matrix of shapes and solving “lock pick” puzzles where you have to match the shapes in the upper and lower part of the screen.
	www.hookedgamers.com /reviews/2006/5/dreamfall_the_longest_journey (1015 words)

	Opening Day Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Patroit's Day (April 19), a holiday in Massachussetts and Maine, was the occasion for a few openers featuring the Red Sox and Boston Braves, including 1919 when the Braves dropped both ends of a rare morning/afternoon doubleheader to Brooklyn, and 1937, when the Braves again lost two games, that time to the Phillies.
		The Opening Day game was the only time the two legends ever appeared on the same diamond in major league competition.
		Despite their extraordinary tradition on Opening Days, which have included parades, fireworks, circus performances, and the opening of new parks in 1884, 1894, 1912 and 2003, the Reds have had moderate success on the field, posting a 51-53-1 record in Opening Day games, dating back to 1900.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /history/openingday/notes.htm (2074 words)

	Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (pc: 2006): Reviews
		Although the game holds an intriguing and extremely likable protagonist in the plucky slacker Zoe Castillo, the rest of the game in the gritty parlance of the streets, blows enormous monkey chunks.
		This game is excellent, the only way to improve this game I could think of is to free the vertical movement of the camera and to mabye change the view to first person instead of 2nd, but really that is just because I love 1st person shootes.
		Game picks the interest from the begening, graphics are real good, ideas of story is real nice, but ending is sad, hoping for a secong part of the game soon.
	www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/pc/dreamfall (2194 words)

	NFL.com - San Francisco at Chicago Game Recap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seconds later, he was in the NFL record books with the longest play in league history -- an almost unimaginable rambling 108-yard TD return that stunned the San Francisco 49ers and propelled the Chicago Bears to a blustery 17-9 win.
		The previous longest play was Baltimore's Chris McAlister's 107-yarder with a missed field goal in 2002.
		The Bears (6-3) have their longest winning streak in a single season since 2001, when they won six in a row en route to a division title.
	www.nfl.com /gamecenter/recap/NFL_20051113_SF@CHI (967 words)

	Lan Game Reviews - Dreamfall: The longest journey...and its long awaited arrival
		I know the title of a game can be an indicator of the caliber and type of game one may be playing but believe it or not, this title is a sequel to a game that came out in 2000 called “The Longest Journey”.
		The original game was about a young girl having a weird set of dreams which made her question certain aspects of reality.
		The game to come out this spring is actually a sequel set in that same universe with a new set of characters to experience the world with.
	www.langamereviews.com /content/view/255/53 (490 words)

	GameOver - The Longest Journey (c) Empire Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Longest Journey is not just a simple fantasy adventure game in which you take control of a heroic protagonist and save the world.
		A game's environment is what creates much of the emotions felt by the player and it is a crucial element of a non-action based adventure game, such as The Longest Journey.
		Longest Journey was developed, quite effectively, as an adventure game and it follows the age old path of classic adventure titles, learning its lessons from games such as King's Quest 6, Monkey Island, Loom and many other great oldies.
	www.game-over.net /review/may2000/tlj/index.html (1544 words)

	Adventure Gamers : Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
		After years of speculation, at long last the game has arrived and the results can be shared, and while each of my favourable responses comes with a caveat, that has more to do with expectations going in than the experience brought out, and those can easily be addressed.
		While the bulk of the game is spent with Zoë, who proves to be an utterly endearing protagonist, at various (pre-determined) points during the game, players will also control two other main characters.
		Set ten years after the events of the first game, April is now a hardened woman, feared and respected for her dedication to the cause, and yet personally disillusioned by the demands of her fate.
	www.adventuregamers.com /article/id,626 (1200 words)

	The Longest Professional Baseball Game — Infoplease.com
		I am trying to find out what was the longest baseball game ever, in innings and the final score of that game and, possibly, how many pitchers were used by the teams involved.
		The game was resumed on June 23, 1981, and ended when Dave Koza's bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd inning scored Marty Barrett, giving Pawtucket a 3-2 win over Rochester.
		The longest game in major league baseball history was a 26-inning affair on May 1, 1920 when the Brooklyn Dodgers and the host Boston Braves tied 1-1.
	www.infoplease.com /askeds/longest-professional-baseball-game.html (218 words)

	Review: The Longest Journey
		The Myst games give a first-person perspective ("through the eyes of the monster", as one subtitle has it); you are a void, a Cartesian observer.
		The L/S games are third-person; they put your character on the screen, a puppet which you lead around and make to dance.
		Comparing games of the same type is difficult; comparing games between genres is impossible.
	www.eblong.com /zarf/gamerev/longestjourney.html (2595 words)

	The Longest NHL Hockey Game — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NHL games can't end in a tie in the playoffs, so the teams have to keep playing until there is a winner.
		The longest game ever played was in Montreal on March 24, 1936.
		It was game one of the semifinal round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs between Detroit and Montreal.
	www.infoplease.com /askeds/longest-nhl-hockey-game.html (106 words)

	Dreamfall: The Longest Journey for PC Review - PC Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Review
		She's still on good terms with her ex, though, and one day, he asks her for what seems like a small favor, for help with a story he's working on for his editor.
		Some room for continuation and interpretation can be a good thing for a story, but in Dreamfall's case, the game doesn't do as good of a job wrapping everything up as it does introducing multiple layers of conflict in the first place.
		Syberia proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the adventure game genre is still full of life.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/adventure/longestjourney2wt/review.html (1196 words)

	GameTrailers.com Forums - The LONGEST game you have ever played.
		All you have to do is post the longest game you have ever played on any difficulty.
		Well I play games til I beat them the same day but the longest game I played was FFVII I played it for 5 weeks 7hrs a day just because I wanted to do all the extra stuff and get to Lv.99.
		I usually play games until I beat them but I guess I spent more time on Final Fantasy 6/3 because I tried to resurrect General Leo by killing a thousand of the dinosaurs in the dinosaur forest.
	forums.gametrailers.com /showthread.php?t=29062 (771 words)

	The Official Site of the Houston Texans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the regular season opener 10 days away, head coach Gary Kubiak rested some of his key players in the preseason finale.
		The Texans have rushed for more than 100 rushing yards in three of their four preseason games, which also is a team record.
		On the Bucs' third possession of the game, strong safety Jason Simmons stuffed running back Earnest Graham for no gain on fourth-and-one from the Tampa Bay 36.
	www.houstontexans.com /gameday/game_p4.php?section=Gameday (633 words)

	Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Updated Impressions - The Beginning of the Story - PC News at GameSpot
		An early part of the game begins with Zoe Castillo, the game's primary protagonist, lying in bed on a sunny day in a futuristic version of the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
		At the beginning of the game, Zoe is convinced that the apparition is the result of either a viral marketing campaign or a dropping signal generated by "static," the effects of solar winds on the worldwide wireless network.
		Tornquist explained that the game is attempting to be both highly cinematic and more accessible to a wider audience, so as a result, it won't have any huge opaque windows cluttering up the screen.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/adventure/longestjourney2wt/preview_6120016.html (1134 words)

	ESPN.com - MLB - Recap
		David Ortiz's RBI single on the 471st pitch of the game with two outs in the 14th inning capped a second straight amazing comeback in less than 24 hours Monday night and gave the Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees in the AL Championship Series.
		When it was over, the teams had played back-to-back marathon games that totaled 26 innings almost 11 hours -- 5 hours, 2 minutes on Sunday and 5 hours, 49 minutes Monday -- the longest by time in postseason history.
		Ortiz, who won Game 4 with a two-run homer in the bottom of the 12th inning, then fouled off eight two-strike pitches, including one that just missed being a home run down the right-field line, before dumping a soft single into center field.
	sports.espn.go.com /mlb/recap?gameId=241018102 (1364 words)

	wcbstv.com - Yanks Win Longest 9-Inning Game In MLB History
		The night game, at 4 hours, 45 minutes, was the longest nine-inning game in major league history, surpassing the 4:27 it took the Dodgers and Giants to play on Oct. 5, 2001.
		Because the park was cleared between games, it does not count as a doubleheader in the record books, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
		Facing their top rivals a day after losing 12-2 to Baltimore, the Yankees also got a boost from Abreu, who was acquired from the Phillies at the trade deadline and experienced the craziness for the first time.
	wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_231004120.html (922 words)

	Dreamfall: The Longest Journey game review - Page 1 of 1 - Gameworld Network
		Some get misty-eyed when recollecting the salad days of point-and-click when Sierra ruled the roost with titles like Kings Quest, whereas others swear up and down that the pinnacle of digital adventuring was reached with the release of Grim Fandango.
		The game begins with Zoë Castillo comatose in a hospital bed, her father weeping at bedside.
		At the end of the day, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is more of an interactive story and less of an adventure game that most had hoped for.
	pcgames.gwn.com /reviews/gamereview.php/id/939 (1304 words)

	GameSpy: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Preview
		Funcom's incredible adventure game The Longest Journey took the character of April Ryan on a surreal quest through both worlds, and in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, the adventure continues.
		The daughter of a prominent biotechnologist, she lives in Casablanca and spends her days going to the gym, learning a thing or two about hand-to-hand combat, throwing parties, and drinking a bit too much wine.
		The game scores higher from an artistic standpoint than on a technical basis, with some very nice backdrops that make the best use of basic weather effects, giving you the impression of real beauty without as much detail as we've seen in some of the current next-generation software.
	xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/dreamfall-the-longest-journey/700354p1.html (696 words)

	Scout.com: The Longest Day
		The combined eight hours and 42 minutes of baseball of baseball is the longest doubleheader in history and the 26 runs surrendered by the Sox is a team record for twinbills.
		And Johnny Damon, the man who single-handedly keeps Boston T-shirt makers in business, enjoyed a monster day in his old haunts as he went 6-for-12 with two homers, seven RBI and one run-scoring catch in the sixth inning of the opener that allowed the Yankees to maintain a one-run lead.
		The most damaging pitches, though, were thrown by Craig Hansen and Mike Timlin in the seventh inning of the second game.
	redsox.scout.com /2/558750.html (915 words)

	Tru Calling: The Longest Day - TV.com
		Tru’s mission intensifies when she finds herself reliving the same day a second time after her attempt to save a gunshot victim leads to the death of an innocent bystander.
		As Tru tries to simultaneously prevent two deaths, the complications snowball as she tampers with events, and she soon finds herself trapped in the same day.
		The Longest Day is just that as Tru finds herself rewinding the day over and over until she figures out just what is required of her.
	www.tv.com /tru-calling/the-longest-day/episode/402830/summary.html (380 words)

	D-Day VIII Results
		In all, 46 games were played—eleven more than at this year’s WBC—thereby cementing the mini-con’s claim as the top tournament for serious players of this game.
		It was more than a little disconcerting to realize that I no longer had the upper hand in a game in which I thought the dice had favored me. Fortunately for me, fate continued to smile on me and blew coldly on his bombardments as Carentan held on for the win.
		I clung to that Victory Point for the rest of the game and with the Allies stalled at 8 for several days it proved to be the difference.
	www.boardgamers.org /specific/bkn05.htm (1993 words)

	The Longest Day
		Was used as a one week demonstration game in one Avaloncon.
		Java application VASSAL module The Longest Day is under construction by WGA.
		One of my favorites (I bought three mint shrink wrapped games when it was rumored to go out of print) but have only had the chance to play about 4 campaign games over the years.
	www.wargameacademy.org /TLD (513 words)

	Multiplayer War/Strategy Game, Play Online for Free - Longest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		but no game has held my attention for a longer time than the one i am answering your question over right now.
		AOW has captivated me for about six or seven months now, and the longest i have ever been on was about 8 hours, at the beginning of this test round setting up my 5 provs and chatting with the people in them.
		Posted - Apr 12 2006 : 4:01:35 PM well, it seems that you, donut, are the most disciplined and down to earth person among us....oh, not to mention, you must have had a social life.
	www.agesofwar.com /game/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5986 (1265 words)

	PawSox.com - The Longest Game
		Baseball's famous "Longest Game" between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox lasted a record 33 innings and took more than eight hours over two different days to complete.
		On June 23rd, Dave Koza, who entered the game as the best hitter in the contest at 4-for-13, hit a 2-2 curve ball from reliever Cliff Speck into left field to score Marty Barrett and give the Pawtucket Red Sox a 3-2 victory over the Rochester Red Wings.
		The game, which drew national attention because of the baseball strike and the historical nature of the event, attracted a near sellout crowd of about 5,800 to McCoy Stadium.
	www.pawsox.com /team/longest_game (720 words)

	NMSS: Chapter Events: MS Longest Day of Golf
		The MS Longest Day of Golf Coordinator will contact the captain regarding your course and play date.
		The MS Longest Day of Golf is a rain or shine event, but if you need to cancel your day of golf the morning of for inclement weather or for another reason, you must call the course and cancel your tee time.
		Each foursome's "Longest Day of Golf" is donated by the sponsoring host course.
	www.msandyou.org /chapter_events/ms_ldg/longestday_golf.php3 (703 words)

	ESPN.com - MLB - Recap
		TORONTO (AP) -- Pete Walker didn't want to be the one who disappointed the fans who stayed around for the longest game in Toronto Blue Jays history and the longest in the majors this season.
		The previous longest this season was 15 innings, San Diego's 5-4 victory over Arizona on April 29.
		The game took 4 hours, 50 minutes, the longest in the majors this season.
	sports.espn.go.com /mlb/recap?gameId=250728114 (800 words)

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