100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things... Fans Should Know) - Softcover

Luckhaupt, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600787940 ISBN 13: 9781600787942

Verlag: TRIUMPH BOOKS, 2013

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In this ultimate resource guide for true fans of baseball&;s first professional team, author Joel Luckhaupt has collected every essential piece of Cincinnati Reds trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranked them from one to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for fans to complete in their lifetime. Most Reds fans have taken in a game or two at the Great American Ball Park, have seen highlights of the Big Red Machine, and remember the team&;s surprising triumph in the 1990 World Series. But only real fans know which 15-year-old took the mound for the Reds in 1944, can name the pitcher who gave up Pete Rose&;s 4,192nd hit, or remember how many dogs owner Marge Schott owned. 100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the perfect book for any fan of Reds baseball, whether a die-hard booster from the days of Ted Kluszewski or a new supporter of Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, and Aroldis Chapman.

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Joel Luckhaupt is a statistician for Fox Sports Ohio and the coauthor of The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship. He has also served as contributing editor of the Maple Street Press Reds Annual. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By Joel Luckhaupt

Triumph Books

Copyright © 2013 Joel Luckhaupt
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-60078-794-2

Contents

Foreword by Dusty Baker, 
Acknowledgments, 
Introduction, 
1. The Big Red Machine, 
2. Joe Nuxhall, 
3. Opening Day, 
4. Pete Rose, 
5. Johnny Bench, 
6. The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 
7. Sparky Anderson, 
8. Marty Brennaman, 
9. 4,192, 
10. Frank Robinson, 
11. Joe Morgan, 
12. Joey Votto, 
13. The 1975 World Series, 
14. Tom Browning Has Pitched a Perfect Game!, 
15. Barry Larkin, 
16. Reds Trade for Speed and Get So Much More, 
17. Vander Meer's Back-to-Back No-Hitters, 
18. The Wire-to-Wire Reds, 
19. Powel Crosley and Larry MacPhail, 
20. Visit Great American Ball Park, 
21. Bucky Walters, 
22. 1976 Playoff Sweep, 
23. 1972 Postseason, 
24. Frank Robinson Trade, 
25. Black Sox Scandal, 
26. Bob Howsam, 
27. Tony Perez, 
28. Jose Rijo, 
29. Attend Redsfest, 
30. Jim Maloney, 
31. Marge Schott, 
32. Eric Davis, 
33. Pete Rose Banned, 
34. The 1940 World Championship, 
35. Edd Roush, 
36. Major League Baseball's First Night Game, 
37. Visit Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, 
38. The Nasty Boys, 
39. Visit Reds Spring Training, 
40. Bob Castellini, 
41. Mario Soto, 
42. Lou Piniella, 
43. Ted Kluszewski, 
44. Brandon Phillips, 
45. Crosley Field, 
46. Ken Griffey Jr., 
47. Ernie Lombardi, 
48. Harry and George Wright, 
49. Attend Reds Fantasy Camp, 
50. Bill McKechnie, 
51. Hometown Reds, 
52. Join a Reds Fan Group, 
53. Vada Pinson, 
54. George Foster, 
55. Three Consecutive MVPs, 
56. Don Gullett, 
57. The 1970 NL Pennant Winners, 
58. Gary Nolan, 
59. Paul Derringer, 
60. David Concepcion, 
61. The Ragamuffin Reds, 
62. Catch the Reds Caravan, 
63. Dolf Luque, 
64. Clinchmas 2010, 
65. The Lost Seasons of 1981 and 1994, 
66. Support the Reds Community Fund, 
67. Riverfront Stadium, 
68. Noodles Hahn, 
69. Fifty Years and Four Shortstops, 
70. The 1957 All-Star Ballot Stuffing, 
71. Build a Reds Library, 
72. Aroldis Chapman, 
73. Eppa Rixey, 
74. Sean Casey, 
75. Johnny Cueto, 
76. Waite Hoyt, 
77. Fred Hutchinson, 
78. Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell, 
79. Pete Rose Collides with Ray Fosse, 
80. Reds on the Radio, 
81. Heinie Groh, 
82. The 1995 Reds, 
83. Tom Seaver, 
84. Bid McPhee, 
85. Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda, 
86. Pete Rose's 44-Game Hit Streak, 
87. Johnny Bench Night, 
88. Pat Moran, 
89. Frank McCormick, 
90. Have a Day, Art Shamsky!, 
91. Attend the Reds' Hall of Fame Gala, 
92. Adam Dunn, 
93. The Only Woman Ever to Bat in a Major League Game, 
94. Check Out a Reds Minor League Affiliate, 
95. Reds Fall One Game Short in 1999, 
96. The Only Reds Team to Lose 100 Games, 
97. Chris Sabo, 
98. Cy Seymour, 
99. 221 Home Runs in a Single Season, 
100. The Stowes, 
Sources, 

CHAPTER 1

The Big Red Machine

The Big Red Machine wasn't baseball's first dynasty, and it wasn't its last, either. However, it was the last great dynasty before free agency, an innovation that made dynasty-building both a baseball and business proposition. The team was also a collection of baseball archetypes. If you are a fan of the game, there is someone on this team to whom you likely feel connected. There was the hard-nosed hustler, the phenom, Mr. Clutch, Mr. Everything, the speedster, the masher, and the defensive wizards. And all of them were the best at who they were. There wasn't much that this team didn't have.

Ultimately, though, it was the sheer dominance of the Big Red Machine that will keep them in baseball's consciousness for years to come. From 1970–76, they scored 199 more runs than any other team in baseball and they scored nearly 1,000 more runs than they allowed, outscoring their opponents by 0.88 R/G over those seven years. Their .607 winning percentage during that seven-year span is the highest of any team in Reds history, and through 2012, no other Reds team had matched that number in a single full 162-game season.

The Big Red Machine was built through the combination of a fruitful farm system and a collection of shrewd trades. The first half of that formula was started by Owner/GM Bill DeWitt Sr., who was in charge when the team signed Pete Rose and Tony Perez and drafted Johnny Bench and Gary Nolan. DeWitt also signed Lee May, who would be the key piece in the Joe Morgan trade.

When Bob Howsam took over for DeWitt in 1967, he set about putting his stamp on the team, signing amateur free agents Dave Concepcion and Dan Driessen and drafting Don Gullett, Ken Griffey, Rawly Eastwick, and Will McEnaney. He also made three key trades that would put the finishing touches on the world championship teams of 1975–76. First he traded for George Foster from the San Francisco Giants. Next he got Joe Morgan, Jack Billingham, and Cesar Geronimo from the Houston Astros for May, Tommy Helms, and Jimmy Stewart. Finally, he added Fred Norman in a 1973 trade, solidifying the rotation. He also made the ingenious move of hiring an unknown named Sparky Anderson to manage the squad before the 1970 season — a decision that worked perfectly for this team.

Even with all of the glory that the Big Red Machine receives today, they came dangerously close to being known as a good team that could never get over the top. In 1970 they won a franchise record 102 games, lapping the NL West by 141/2 games. However, they barely made a whimper in the World Series as the Orioles won easily in five games. Two years later it was another double-digit division title, but the Oakland A's staved off an eighth-inning rally in Game 7 to beat the Reds 4–3 in the World Series. In 1973, they won 99 games but lost in the NLCS to a much weaker New York Mets team. A year later they won 98 games but couldn't topple the division-rival Los Angeles Dodgers and failed to make the playoffs.

It was May 1975 when the Big Red Machine truly turned into one of the greatest teams of all time. It was at that point when Sparky Anderson made the decision to move All-Star left fielder Pete Rose to third base so that he could get George Foster into the lineup more regularly, and at that moment the Great Eight was born. From May 21 until the All-Star break, the Reds won 41-of-50 games and turned a five-game deficit into a 121/2-game lead. By the end of the year they tallied 108 victories — it was the highest total in the National League in 66 seasons.

The Reds swept through the Pittsburgh Pirates in three games, but they met their match in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. The two teams battled in a fierce seven-game competition that is considered by many to be the greatest World Series of all time. After five innings of Game 7, it once again looked as if the Reds might choke away a chance at a championship, but a sixth-inning two-run home run by Mr. Clutch, Tony Perez, put the Reds on the board, and a run-scoring single in the seventh from Rose tied it up. In the ninth inning, NL MVP Joe Morgan singled home Ken Griffey to give the Reds their first lead of the game. A 1-2-3 ninth inning by Will McEnaney brought home the victory and Cincinnati's first title in 35 years.

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• Verlag: TRIUMPH BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1600787940
• ISBN 13: 9781600787942
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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