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MichMan

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4. I was a huge Reds fan in the early 70s
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 02:25 PM
Dec 2022

Went to a handful of games back then at Riverfront Stadium.

What a team; Rose, Bench, Morgan, Perez, Foster, Concepcion, Gullett, Bellingham, Borbon, Carroll, Grimsley, Geronimo, Griffey. List goes on and on.

Looked up the 73 season on wikipedia and they mentioned a doubleheader that I went to with my dad.

"The Reds were still in a slump when they met the Dodgers for a July 1, doubleheader in Cincinnati. The Reds were 39–37 and trailed the Dodgers (51–27) by 11 games. Just as they had done 12 years earlier, the Reds swept the Dodgers in a doubleheader to jumpstart their pennant hopes. In Game 1, Cincinnati's third-string catcher, Hal King, belted a game-winning, three-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning off Don Sutton to give the Reds a 4–3 victory. In Game 2, Tony Pérez singled in the game-winner off knuckleball specialist Charlie Hough in the bottom of the 10th as the Reds won 3–2. The doubleheader sweep was part of a stretch where Cincinnati won 10 of 11 games and by July 10, had cut the Dodgers' lead to 4½ games".

Now I have zero interest in baseball.

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