The 100 Inning Game is an annual charity fundraising event, founded by the Boston Men's Baseball League from Boston, Massachusetts, the largest amateur baseball league in New England, in 2004 to raise funds through sponsorship to support Curt's Pitch for ALS, a charitable organization started by former Boston Red Sox pitcher, Curt Schilling, that supports the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This game holds the current world record for the longest exhibition baseball game ever played.
Each year, over one hundred players from the BMBL and other teams from the surrounding area get together in the spring to play a full 100 consecutive innings of baseball, often taking about 36 hours to complete. Schilling's wife makes an annual appearance at the charity event, even playing a few innings on occasion, and Curt Schilling personally receives the check each year.
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“The indispensable ingredient of any game worth its salt is that the children themselves play it and, if not its sole authors, share in its creation. Watching TV’s ersatz battles is not the same thing at all. Children act out their emotions, they don’t talk them out and they don’t watch them out. Their imagination and their muscles need each other.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)