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Series Preview #3: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Cincinnati Reds
After their first road trip and journey through the rotation, the Diamondbacks sit at 2-3 heading into their home debut at Chase Field. While the deserve credit for at least keeping their collective head above water on the road, this upcoming series will be a challenge, as they host the Cincinnati...
Depth Chart, circa Spring 2011: Position Players
I've never quite understood the term "position player." "Pitcher" is also a position, isn't it? So I'm not sure what distinction this makes. I've been championing the term "no pitch 'ems" for years, but so far: no luck. Here's volume two of my attempt to take a non-family-metaphor-based snapshot of...
Today in Sports History: May 24th
5/24/1935 - Reds play Phillies at night The Cincinnati Reds host big league baseball's very first night game as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field. For more than 50 years, National League and American League games were played exclusively in the daytime, with a few games here...
Today in Sports History: February 4th
2/04/1987 - Lakers destroy Kings It was an ugly scene in Los Angeles as the pitiful Sacramento Kings, who would lose 59 games in the '87 season, went up against a Lakers squad that would win 65 games and the NBA championship. After one quarter, the Lakers led by the unimaginable score of 40-4....
Today in Sports History: January 8th
(Rose signs autographs for his book. Photo by Gregory Bull, AP Photos) 1/08/2004 - Rose comes clean Pete Rose's tell-all memoir, My Prison Without Bars, is released to bookstores everywhere. In the book, Rose, who steadfastly denied for 14 years that he had ever bet on baseball, admitted that he...
Today in Sports History: October 24th
(Snow leads Baker to the dugout. Photo by Brian Bahr, Getty Images) 10/24/1985 - Spurs trade Gervin to Bulls The San Antonio Spurs trade George Gervin to the Chicago Bulls for Dave Greenwood. Gervin had led the league in scoring four times and would later be named one of the 50 greatest players...
Today in Sports History: August 1st
(Vikings lineman Korey Stringer. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press) 8/01/1945 - Ott hits 500th Mel Ott becomes the third player overall (Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx) and the first in the National League to hit his 500th career home run. Ott hit the home run off the Boston Braves' Johnny Hutchings....
Today in Sports History: July 17th
7/17/1960 - Newcombe instantly ejected Many pitchers have gotten tossed early in a game, but none have been thrown out quite as quickly as Reds pitcher Don Newcombe. While warming up for a game in Pittsburgh, he got in argument with home plate umpire Dusty Boggess, who complained about the length...
Today in Sports History: June 10th
6/10/1944 - 15 year-old Nuxhall debuts with Reds With many of baseball's biggest stars serving in World War II (such as Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and Yogi Berra), the doors opened up for a plethora of rejects to make it to the majors. Pete Gray, the only one-armed...
Today in Sports History: July 14th
(Rose slamming into Fosse. Photo courtesy of AP Photos) 7/14/1967 - Mathews hits #500 Third baseman Eddie Mathews hits the 500th home run of his career. The longtime Milwaukee Brave hit the blast off Giants pitcher Juan Marichal, a future Hall of Famer who always gave Eddie trouble. Mathews became...
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