The Longest Rain Delays

I'd promised yesterday to investigate whether yesterday's 5:26er was the longest-ever rain delay, but that query runs direct into a serious problem: Major League Baseball doesn't keep track of rain delay statistics. Nor do many others, evidently. Thus, all curious parties are left to cobble together some old newspaper clips, some possibly-apocryphal stories, etc. But I think we can safely guess that this was among the five longest delays in MLB history. For sure, it's not the longest. Even the AP game story from last night's contest mentioned a 1999 game between Cincinnati and Milwaukee that was delayed 5:47. Then, today, I came across this Web page -- really, just a PDF document somehow provided by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) that details all epic rain delays, with no concern for obscurity. (!) We know (or at least somebody tells us), for instance, that on June 17, 1970, (link)