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Since the late 1800s, the Cincinnati Reds have established their presence on the national radar as one of the most popular franchises in professional baseball. As the 2007 season approaches, Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball: The Greatest Stories Ever Told revives the greatest memories ever written in the history of the baseball team who plays on the banks of the Ohio River.
Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball details the roots of the Reds glory, their modern-day triumphs and everything in between for the legions of Cincinnati fans who have watched the team play during the glory days in Crosley Field to today’s Great American Ballpark.
Stitching together the best stories ever written from the newspaper and magazine columnists to cover the Reds, Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball goes back in time to the early years of the franchise and traces its footsteps throughout the 20th century and into today. Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball not only recounts the greatest moments in Reds lore, it also covers the most outstanding players to put on a Reds uniform and tracks the chronological progression of sports writing styles from the esoteric to the ultra-modern.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball franchise has won five World Series and nine National League pennants, the most important of which are written about in Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball with stories and accounts from such Reds icons as:
¨ Pete Rose ¨ Joe Morgan ¨ Johnny Bench
¨ Ken Griffey, Jr. ¨ Ken Griffey, Sr. ¨ Rob Dibble
¨ Frank Robinson ¨ Marge Schott ¨ Lou Piniella
Whether you followed the 1961 or 1990 World Series champions, whether your hero was Pete Rose or Frank Robinson, Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball brings it all together. Their stories are waiting for you, as told by the most outstanding voices of the Queen City’s oldest franchise across the ages and guaranteed to enhance your passion for Reds baseball.
No other book this fall captures the scope and detail across the years that Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball offers the casual or diehard fan.