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The last time a Cincinnati Red won MVP of the All-Star Game | John Ring

07/17/2018

The 1982 baseball season was one of the worst ever for the Cincinnati Reds. They lost 102 games just six years after winning consecutive World Championships. And thanks to the incredible resurgence of the curre... Read More...

Remembering the 1968 Reds: The Battle for Rookie of the Year | John Ring

John Ring

06/30/2018

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Editor: This is the fifth installment of a season-long series by our resident Reds historian, John Ring. The series will examine the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Cincinnati Reds, a team on the brink (of huge su... Read More...

Remembering the 1968 Reds: Another assassination, another baseball crisis | John Ring

John Ring

06/02/2018

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Editor: This is the fourth installment of a season-long series by our resident Reds historian, John Ring. The series will examine the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Cincinnati Reds, a team on the brink (of huge s... Read More...

How does Cincinnati’s bad start rate in club history? | John Ring

John Ring

04/14/2018

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So how bad is it? It snowed on April 9. In the first week of the 2018 season, the Reds lost as many starting players (2) as they had wins. Manager Bryan Price was still making some head-scratching decisions.... Read More...

From Ã¢â‚¬Å“OCÃ¢â‚¬Â to Bronson: a history of Reds pitching trades

John Ring

11/10/2017

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Everyone knows it. Me, Chad, The Nation, everybody. The Reds need to obtain a veteran starting pitcher who can reliably show up on the mound every fifth day, give them (dare I say?) 180 innings of work an... Read More...

Spring Training Surprises

John Ring

03/13/2017

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Like baseball itself, Spring Training has changed and evolved over the years. Logistically, it sure has for Cincinnati. The Reds left Florida for Arizona in 2010, a move that probably still irks some in the ... Read More...

Misfiring (some Reds managers)

John Ring

10/07/2016

All the speculation on whether Bryan Price would return to the Reds as their manager has now concluded. He will be back next year for sure, with an option year included. To most involved with Redleg Nation, we ... Read More...

A no-hit win for the Reds

John Ring

04/30/2016

Most of you have never heard of Ken Johnson. He toiled in the major leagues for 13 seasons, pitched for some bad teams and was what you would call a Ã¢â‚¬Å“late bloomer.Ã¢â‚¬Â He died in obscurity on November... Read More...

The Specialness of Opening Day

John Ring

03/27/2016

Opening Day. Opening Day is one game, at one place and at the Sanctuary City of Baseball on the banks of the Ohio River. To Reds fans and the City of Cincinnati, Opening Day is close to sacred. This is nothin... Read More...

Jim Maloney’s Toughest No-Hitter

Steve Mancuso

03/16/2013

(This is the second in a series of articles about Cincinnati Reds pitchers to throw no-hitters. Twelve Red hurlers have thrown no-hitters, including Homer BaileyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s gem against the Pittsburgh Pirates last... Read More...

Great Pitching Staffs and Intentional Walks

stevepriceredlegnation

12/14/2010

Baseball-reference.com's blog has a couple of interesting tidbits of statistical information today that are Reds related. With the Phillies' signing Cliff Lee, they decided to research for starting rotations t... Read More...

This Day in Reds History: Cookie Rojas Dealt to Phillies

stevepriceredlegnation

11/27/2010

November 27, 1962: On this day, the Reds deal prospect second baseman Cookie Rojas to the Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher Jim Owens. Rojas had been one of several Cuban players the Reds (or Redlegs) had bee... Read More...

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