Archive for June, 2006

Reds History - How’s Wayne Measuring Up?

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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Reds’ brass praised.
The Reds got some high praise in the Sports Illustrated midseason report.
The club’s front office was named the best in baseball for the first half of the season.
The report, due on newsstands today, says: “New general manager Wayne Krivsky quickly made his mark with two moves […]

Have the Reds ever had pitching? 1960-1966 - The Hutchinson/DeWitt Years

Monday, June 26th, 2006

“You know how much stuff he had? He had a nickel curve, a nickel fast ball, a purpose pitch and a million dollars worth of heart, that’s what he had.”
Gene Mauch On Fred Hutchinson.
Do you know your team?
Do you know the patterns that they drag you through, the whims that the men who run […]

Every Picture Tells a Story. Don’t it?

Monday, June 19th, 2006

One of my baseball habits involves perusing through old baseball photos, especially Reds photos. These photos can tell us so much about the game and the men and the times in that were wrapped around the light and shadows that the picture displays for the viewer to stare at and ponder baseball’s long and interesting […]