Fagan: Minnie Lee’s scorebooks: A two-decade love letter to Reds baseball
From Ryan Fagan at The Sporting News on May 18, 2020:
Minnie Lee Olges loved her Cincinnati Reds.
Nearly every summer night for almost two decades, this sweet baseball-loving grandma settled into her recliner, the one next to the screen door leading to the driveway, and listened to Reds broadcasting legends Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall call Cincinnati baseball games on her radio.
In her house, the second-to-last one on a quiet dead-end street in Louisville, Ky., Minnie Lee kept score as her beloved Reds competed on the field. She didn’t have cable TV, so she couldn’t watch many games, but she didn’t need to. She watched the Reds through Marty and Joe’s words, and she told their stories on her score sheets.
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Originally published: May 20, 2020. Last Updated: May 20, 2020.