A month before Opening Day 1953, the Cincinnati Reds were expecting…
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It was a Monday evening well into a season in which the Cincinnati…
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On Saturday, August 18, 1956, the Cincinnati Redlegs and Milwaukee…
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The morning of Sunday, June 2, 1957, was a great day to be a…
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The 1955 National League pennant race had already been decided…
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Manager Casey Stengel was back at the helm for the fourth consecutive…
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Before the 1940 World Series began, it might have seemed as if…
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After Bobo Newsom shut the Reds out 8-0 in the fifth game of…
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Baseball insiders and fans were asking a lot of questions as…
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Cincinnati’s Crosley Field was crammed with 30,640 spectators…
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Paul Derringer had struggled before. Two years after a brilliant…
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The Los Angeles Dodgers were having a weird week. Two nights…
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It certainly felt like mid-summer to the 39,578 fans attending…
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The 1936 All-Star Game was still five days away, but the race…
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In 1888 Tim Keefe of the New York Giants was recognized as one…
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Coming off a third-place finish in 1900, the Philadelphia Phillies…
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Going into the 1940 season, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Reds…
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April 13, 1953: Max Surkont spins shutout in Milwaukee Braves’ first game
July 19, 1954: Hobie Landrith, an overnight success eight years in the making
July 29, 1955: Reds’ Smoky Burgess blasts 3 homers with 9 RBIs in offensive outburst
August 18, 1956: Redlegs, Braves combine for record 10 “taters” on a Saturday evening
June 1, 1957: Redlegs outscore the scoreboard in 22-2 rout of Cubs
September 21, 1955: Red-hot Gus Bell has four hits, eight RBIs
July 14, 1953: ‘Country Boy’ Enos Slaughter steps in to fill the vacuum for NL stars
This Week in SABR: September 27, 2019
October 7, 1940: Reds’ Bucky Walters hurls World Series shutout to force deciding Game 7
June 8, 1940: Reds’ Harry Craft hits for cycle as ‘our lads annihilate Dodgers’
October 8, 1940: Reds pitching prevails and Cincinnati celebrates first World Series title in two decades
October 2, 1940: Jittery Reds lose World Series opener to Bobo Newsom and the Tigers
October 3, 1940: Jimmy Ripple’s homer vaults Reds to Win in Game 2
Oliver Faulkner
May 26, 1940: Derringer dazzles as Reds celebrate a pennant flag
August 12, 1995: Dodgers win in the 11th on a walk-off rule violation
June 8, 1962: Mets snap 17-game losing streak, then lose again
June 2, 2018: Max Scherzer pinch hits, scores winning run in the 14th inning
July 19, 1939: Arky Vaughan hits for reverse natural cycle, leads Pirates past crippled Giants
July 2, 1936: Bruce Campbell’s perfect day
August 10, 1888: Tim Keefe outduels rookie Harry Staley for 19th consecutive victory
June 24, 1901: “He Didn’t Have the Energy to Strike a Lucifer”
This Week in SABR: September 20, 2019
May 13, 1940: Johnny Mize mashes three home runs as Cardinals, Reds tie in Ladies’ Day darkness