Baseball - General

Baseball is Life: How to Clete Out

11/24/2021

Early in the season, I shared with you the important baseball tradition known as Cleting out, the process of abandoning a sporting event, live or otherwise, earlier than hoped for or expected. It is named for t... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: The Laugh Track

Mary Beth Ellis

11/03/2021

The transferral of my entire childhood to YouTube and various streaming services means that I now have the ability to study, in all its pastel and neon glory, the television staples of the 80s and 90s. I will h... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: What If the Ballast Leaves?

Mary Beth Ellis

09/29/2021

When we count the age of the Reds, we begin not from the moment of conception, but the moment of remuneration. And there's a reason for that.

Baseball Is Life: Center of the Field

Mary Beth Ellis

07/21/2021

Cincinnatians of a certain age grew up linking baseball with the center of the city. For those of us raised post-suburbia and post-multiuse stadium, a live baseball game was Of Downtown. You had to get on the i... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Background Programs

Mary Beth Ellis

06/30/2021

They had to talk me down from the ledge when some teacher explained that entire bodily systems—heart, digestion, even blinking—worked without me thinking about it. They’re background programs. I knew these thin... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: The Rules

Mary Beth Ellis

03/24/2021

I am having to aunt as I have never aunted before. My entire clutch of nephews has forsaken baseball for lacrosse. This now means that I have been yanked from the solid West Side ground of crunchy parish backya... Read More...

Former Reds outfielder Billy Hamilton to be used properly in Atlanta?

Doug Gray

08/20/2019

The Atlanta Braves claimed Billy Hamilton on waivers with the idea of using him much like the Cincinnati Reds did in 2013.

Reds top prospect Hunter Greene will have Tommy John surgery

Doug Gray

04/02/2019

Cincinnati Reds prospect Hunter Greene will undergo Tommy John surgery after injuring his elbow while in Goodyear during spring training.

No More Financial Considerations

Jason Linden

01/19/2019

Free agency seems to be broken. Teams no longer want to pay for the best teams, or the best talent to put on the field at the Major League level.

The 1968 Cincinnati Reds: End of an era

John Ring

01/02/2019

The 1968 season marked the end of an era in Cincinnati Reds baseball. But it also marked the start of a new, great era in Cincinnati history.

Baseball Is Life: What Holds Us Together

Mary Beth Ellis

12/07/2018

Baseball is life and at times, it's also what holds us together. That held true once again with the passing of former President George HW Bush.

Baseball Is Life: Historic Color Rush

Mary Beth Ellis

11/09/2018

If you thought 2019 was going to be just another soul-deadening year of rebuilding for the Reds, think again. This year, the Reds going to wear more unnecessary and commercially available throwback uniforms tha... Read More...