Baseball Is Life: Back Through Town Someday
Former Cincinnati Reds Jay Bruce and Todd Frazier are taking different routes in their careers this week.
Reds, baseball great Frank Robinson passes away at 83
Frank Robinson, a Cincinnati Reds and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, has passed away today at the age of 83.
Is Scott Rolen a Hall of Famer?
Scott Rolen's case for the Hall of Fame isn't perfect, but it's plenty good enough that he should be voted in.
Baseball Is Life: God at Second Base
Racist, probably
Our budget-conscious mother sewed, cobbled together, or recycled our Halloween costumes, which by 2017 standards isn’t just Earth-friendly, it was life-saving.
Instead of shipping us ... Read More...
Johnny Cueto’s Occasionally Excellent, Occasionally Strange Kansas City Adventure
As Johnny Cueto ambled off the Rogers Centre mound on Oct. 19 to a cacophony of jeers from nearly 50,000 boisterous blue-clad Blue Jays backers, the former-Reds-ace-turned-Royals gun-for-hire flashed his tradem... Read More...
Q&A with former Reds outfielder Chris Heisey: Part II
In Part I of my dialogue with Chris Heisey, the former Reds outfielder and I chatted about him speaking to the Little League World Series runners-up; how he originally wanted to play baseball and basketball at ... Read More...
Q&A with former Reds outfielder Chris Heisey: Part I
It’s been quite a year for Chris Heisey. After spending over nine years in the Reds organization, the outfielder was shipped to the Dodgers in early December for right-handed pitcher Matt Magill. The 30-... Read More...
Did You Know the Reds Had a Black Player Before Jackie Robinson?
I recently learned something about the Reds I had never heard of before: A black man played for the Reds in 1944, three years before the Dodger's Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line. The black man was f... Read More...
Q&A with former Reds reliever Bill Bray: Part II
In Part I of my conversation with Bill Bray, the former Red and I discussed many talking points, but among them were the Montreal Expos-turned-Washington Nationals; the odd nature of Bray’s big league de... Read More...
Q&A with former Reds reliever Bill Bray: Part I
Of the 197.1 innings Bill Bray pitched in the major leagues over six different seasons from 2006-12, 174.1 of them came in a Reds uniform. The left-handed Bray primarily operated with a fastball-slider combi... Read More...
Ryan Freel, CTE and catcher collisions
A report released this week about former Reds player Ryan Freel concludes that the high-energy outfielder had been suffering from a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy ... Read More...
Searching for the Next Sparky
Any venture capitalists out there? Somebody with some spare cash burning a hole in his pocket? Hey. Charlie Sheen’s a huge baseball guy and a serious Cincinnati Reds fan. He’s got wads of ca... Read More...