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Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
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Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
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by Jim O'Toole and Mark Stallard
Sales Rank : 428384
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Hardcover: 180 pages
Publisher: Triumph Books IL April 30, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1572439467
ISBN-13: 978-1572439467
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Book Description
The Cincinnati Reds, founding fathers of professional baseball, have no historical equal. The team has a history rich in players, personalities, and championship moments. Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball chronicles that history through some of the greatest sportswriting of the past century and a half. From the original Red Stockings to Johnny Vander Meer, and from the Big Red Machine to Junior, this book covers all the bases that define Cincinnati Reds baseball.
From the Inside Flap
With a colorful history that dates back to 1869, the Cincinnati Reds--then known as the Red Stockings--are considered the first all-professional baseball team on record. They opened their season with a 45-9 victory over the Great Westerns of Cincinnati and finished the historic campaign several months later with a perfect 57-0 record. Not a bad way to leave an indelible mark on what would eventually come to be known as our national pastime. Over the next several decades the franchise was instrumental in forming professional baseball as we know it today. And the Reds were a lightning rod that attracted many of the game's greatest players and renowned characters: Eppa Rixey, the lanky southpaw who spent his last 13 seasons in the organization in the 1920s and 1930s; fellow hurler Johnny Vander Meer, who threw two consecutive no-hitters in 1937; and catcher Johnny Bench and fellow Hall of Famer second baseman Joe Morgan, considered two of the best to ever play their respective positions. Bench and Morgan played together on the Big Red Machine of the 1970s along with all-time hits leader and Hall of Fame absentee, the incomparable Pete Rose.
The history and character of the Reds has also lent itself to some of the more memorable sportswriting in baseball's annals. Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball is a compilation of such eloquent reporting, from W.A. Phelon's account of the infamous 1919 World Series to Sports Illustrated's profile of Ken Griffey Jr., one of the most electrifying players of the past half-century. Renowned baseball writers such as Roger Kahn and Ron Fimrite were compelled to document Reds players, managers, and championships over the years for revered publications such as The Sporting News and The Saturday Evening Post. Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball is a nostalgic collection of the most memorable feature articles, profiles, and recollections about Major League Baseball's original franchise.
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