“[Dan] Barry does more than simply recount the inning-by-inning-by-inning box score. He delves beneath the surface, like an archaeologist piecing together the shards and fragments of a forgotten society, to reconstruct a time and a night that have become part of baseball lore.” - Associated Press
“A fascinating, beautifully told story... In the hands of Barry, a national correspondent for the New York Times, this marathon of duty, loyalty, misery and folly becomes a riveting narrative...The book feels like ‘Our Town’ on the diamond.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Dan Barry represents the magic that is possible in journalism when there is a convergence between a great story and great talent.” - Gay Talese
Praise for Bottom of the 33rd:
“What a book—an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making that has, at its center, a great respect for the symphony of voices that make up America.” - Colum McCann
“An astonishing tale that lyrically articulates baseball?s inexorable grip on its players and fans, Bottom of the 33rd belongs among the best baseball books ever written.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck.” - Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin
“An important story about the horrors of slavery and exploitation that can happen to vulnerable people anywhere.” - The Atlantic
The story of these men gets the full telling it deserves in Dan Barry’s powerful, moving, and at times heartbreaking book, The Boys in the Bunkhouse.” - Commonweal Magazine
“Disturbing yet beautifully told...” - America Magazine
“Gently, emphatically, and indelibly, Barry conveys a tale of unthinkable brutality. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“As an exposé of a moral catastrophe, this is a vital piece of reportage.” - New York Times Book Review
“Hard-hitting journalism shot through with flourishes of the best literary nonfiction. . . . The Boys in the Bunkhouse is, ultimately, a hopeful story of the power of a few dogged individuals to make change.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An extraordinary contribution to the literature of social injustice. . . . The Boys in the Bunkhouse surely will emerge as one of the landmark books of the year.” - Providence Journal
“Barry’s book can’t right all those wrongs, but it at least documents them eloquently, and in a more permanent way.” - Kansas City Star
“The Boys in the Bunkhouse is not just a book about the victims but also a book that turns those victims into real men. Dan Barry has written them into history, as only a journalist could.” - Newsweek