Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Guiness Book of World Records - Longest Baseball Game Ever


On the weekend of June 6 and 7 all 800 Wrentham, Massachusetts youth baseball and softball players including Paul Thomas will attempt to set the WORLD RECORD for the longest baseball game ever played, 36 hours! The event will take place in Wrentham, Massachusetts at the Sweatt Field Complex. Every player from each team will participate in the event. The Longest Baseball Game will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 6 and end 36 hours later, at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 7.The current world record for the Longest Baseball Game is 32 hours 29 minutes 25 seconds set October 13-14, 2007 in St. Louis, Mo.In order for this event to be a success we need your help. Please consider contributing towards Paul's personal fund-raising goal. We're offering great incentive prizes for Paul including an event T-shirt, a large cheese pizza from Omega pizza and the top incentive prize, lunch with Red Sox legend Curt Schilling including the opportunity for pictures and autographs. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to distribute to charities that include the local DARE program, the Wrentham Food Pantry, the WEST foundation, the Taylor Meyer Scholarship Fund, the Rice Complex, the March of Dimes and Curt's Pitch for ALS.The entire game will be broadcast on the internet at http://www.wdisam.com/The exact time of Paul's game will be posted on the home page soon so you can listen to Paul help set a WORLD RECORD!Thank you for your support!

To donate to the cause go to: http://longestbaseballgame.org/profiles/?player=PaulThomas

3 comments:

  1. An anonymous person has posted a comment here on our site attempting to debunk the plausibility of our Guinness World records run. I am currently doing research and have contacted the organizers in Wrentham regarding the Guinness Record. If I have falsely stated the leagues attempt to actually be in the book, it is because I was ill informed. Stay tuned. A link to the current record is as follows http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/adjudications/071016_longest_baseball_marathon.aspx . I do have to wonder why anyone would try to debunk a nine year olds ambition. But, truth should alwways prevail; so stay tuned. Donations DO go to worthy charities and Tommy WILL get to meet Curt Schilling and the little league IS trying to beat the time of the current longest baseball game. But whether the kids can get in the book or not remains to be seen. They are still doing a fun and worthy event for a good cause regardless.

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  2. The response I got from one of the coordinators of the event:

    There are several ways to set a Guiness Record. The group in St. Louis paid several thousand dollars for the gentleman who wrote this piece to attend their event. That is one of the revenue sources for Guiness. Someone flies over from England to be present. The other way is to apply, as we did, describing the record we are going to set or break, and then provide documentation that we did achieve what we set out to achieve. They take a newspaper reporter, a TV reporter, a town official etc...account of the event for documentation. Guiness then certifies from the accounts given to them that a record has been set. It is basically a free way to set or break a record. - Jim Lucas

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