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 In 1976, the Cincinnati Reds were the kings of baseball.
They won 102 games in the regular season, swept aside the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS, and annihilated the New York Yankees in a World Series sweep to capture the championship.
And the roll call for that team was awe inspiring: Bench, Morgan, Rose, Perez, Foster, and Griffey (before he had to be designated as "Sr."). They were the Big Red Machine, and they were capable of running over anything that got in its way.
Flash ahead 30 years to 2006, and the picture in Cincinnati just isn't the same.
Oh, they still have a star player named "Griffey" on the team, but that's about as far as the resemblance goes to the team that once gave all of baseball a good old-fashioned jolt of fear every time it showed up to play a game.
The 2006 Reds do have some talent. After all, the core of the lineup which led the NL in homers in 2005 will be back. So, this latest version of Cincinnati's favorite sons does have enough thump to make at least a few opponents uneasy. However, they lack enough key elements (namely pitching and defense) to make them legitimate contenders in a division that has produced the last two NL pennant winners.
That said, here's how Cincinnati's roster shapes up for the 2006 season.
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| Sat, May 17, 2008, 3:55 pm | | |
| Sun, May 18, 2008, 1:15 pm | | |
| Mon, May 19, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Tue, May 20, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Wed, May 21, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Thu, May 22, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Fri, May 23, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Sat, May 24, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Sun, May 25, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Tue, May 27, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Wed, May 28, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Thu, May 29, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Fri, May 30, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Sat, May 31, 2008, 3:55 pm | | |
| Sun, June 1, 2008, 1:15 pm | | |
| Mon, June 2, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Tue, June 3, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, June 4, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Thu, June 5, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Fri, June 6, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Sat, June 7, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Sun, June 8, 2008, 1:10 pm | | |
| Mon, June 9, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Tue, June 10, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Wed, June 11, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Thu, June 12, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Fri, June 13, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Sat, June 14, 2008, 3:55 pm | | |
| Sun, June 15, 2008, 1:15 pm | | |
| Tue, June 17, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Wed, June 18, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
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Did You Know
The '''Cincinnati Reds''' are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of the National League.
Franchise history
The original "Red Stockings"
The original Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first openly all-professional team, were founded as an amateur club in 1863, and became fully professional in 1869. The Red Stockings won 130 straight games throughout 1869 and 1870, before being defeated by the Brooklyn Atlantics. Star players included brothers Harry and George Wright, Fred Waterman, and pitcher Asa Brainard. The 1869 Red Stockings made an eastern swing of 21 games and went undefeated. According to Walter Camp, the team received a banquet and a "champion bat...this rather remarkable testimonial was twenty-seven feet long and nine inches in diameter". The following year, the team lost only one game. They were defeated at the Brooklyn Atlantics' Capitoline Grounds. According to Camp, the Red Stockings lost 8-7 in 11 innings. The game apparently served as a precursor to today's unruly crowds because he wrote: "A crowd of ten thousand people assembled to witness this match, and so lost their heads in the excitement as to give the Western men a very unfair reception." [See: "Base-Ball For The Spectator", Walter Camp, Century Magazine October, 1889.]
The best players of the Cincinnati Red Stockings relocated to Boston after the 1870 season, taking the nickname along with them and becoming the Boston Red Stockings, a team later dubbed the "Beaneaters" and eventually the "Braves", who are now based in Atlanta. A new Cincinnati Red Stockings team became a charter member of the National League in 1876, five years after the first Red Stockings team. The second Red Stockings team was expelled from the league after the 1880 season, in part for violating league rules by serving beer to fans at games, and for their refusal to stop renting out their ballpark, the Bank Street Grounds, on Sundays.
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