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...
Joe Nuxhall tribute
Pretty cool article on ex-Red Aaron Harang and his tribute to Nuxie:
Aaron Harang gets the start for the Dodgers on Wednesday in Surprise against the Royals. He was one of a few Dodgers to change his unifo... Read More...