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Longest Game Remembered By Patrick Coleman Five years ago, Wrentham rallied around a crazy record breaking idea. Every child in Wrentham Youth Baseball and Softball would attempt to play in a 36-hour baseball game, starting on June 6, 2009 and ending the next day. While the original idea was to set a record for the longest game what resulted was a weekend long celebration of community.
he didn’t know the record for the longest game in hours. After a little research, he found his answer.
break that mark by having each team play an hour with the older kids taking their turn late at night. They could do it in 36 hours. But for the event to happen, he needed WYBSA to agree. He went to the president of the program, Terry McGovern. “I had no connection with the board,” remembers Lucas. “Terry was open minded to accept the idea. It could have died in half a second.”
A St. Louis senior league played a game for 32 hours, 29 minutes and
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To strengthen the message that summer temperatures are dangerous to animals in vehicles, Cohen used Facebook to show how quickly a car heats up. The Norfolk ACO demonstrated that the interior of
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On June 15, with temperatures approaching 80, Lown broke into a truck parked at the Wrentham Premium Outlets to rescue a dog from oven like conditions. A post on the Wrentham Police Department Facebook page described the rescue. “Officer Lown gave up his own water for the thirsty overheated dog and all ended well, but not so lucky for another dog that died in a car at the mall several months ago,” the post read. “Even when you crack the window and leave water for the dog, the temperature inside the vehicle rises fast, within minutes. Your dog can become sick and die a lot quicker than you think. Leave the dog at home.”
And they did. Every team in WYBSA was invited to play. There
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June was the month of animal rescues in both Wrentham and Norfolk. Wrentham Police officer Peter Lown garnered press across the region for breaking into a truck to save a dog and Norfolk’s Animal Control Officer (ACO) Hilary Cohen was kept busy this month with several interesting incidents including a rescue of a great horned owl.
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As McGovern thinks back to the event, he remembers it didn’t take too much convincing to pursue the record. “There was a little skepticism,” McGovern says. “But the more we talked it became clear it was something we had to do.”
It all started with Jim Lucas, a baseball fan and Wrentham father of three youth players, wondering about records for longest games. A former baseball announcer, Lucas knew about L to R: Terry McGovern and Jim Lucas reminisce about The Longest the game between Game five years later. the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings back in 1981 28 seconds in 2007. Lucas thought that went 33 innings, which is the that the over 800 kids in Wrentham longest professional contest. But Youth Baseball and Softball could
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