Batter's Box Interactive Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Okay, I should start by admitting that this piece has absolutely zero research support; everything here is strictly from memory. That's an invitation for you all to interject, disagree, expand -- whatever feels right. Basically, I started wondering about a question and figured to myself, "Self, this would be a great arguing point for Da Box." So here we go. The question? What team has had...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds started the season splitting the first 40 games, 20 wins and 20 losses. Then Manager Sparky Anderson made a fateful move. He moved Pete Rose to third base, replacing John Vukovich, who couldn’t hit his way out of a paper bag. The move enabled Anderson to insert George Foster–a power hitter [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds started the season splitting the first 40 games, 20 wins and 20 losses. Then Manager Sparky Anderson made a fateful move. He moved Pete Rose to third base, replacing John Vukovich, who couldn’t hit his way out of a paper bag. The move enabled Anderson to insert George Foster–a power hitter [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds started the season splitting the first 40 games, 20 wins and 20 losses. Then Manager Sparky Anderson made a fateful move. He moved Pete Rose to third base, replacing John Vukovich, who couldn’t hit his way out of a paper bag. The move enabled Anderson to insert George Foster–a power hitter [...]
Red Reporter (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
1981 Cincinnati Reds View full size photo » One of the charming things about baseball is that it typically really means something if you get to the playoffs. If your team is good enough to survive 162 games with a great record, you most likely are one of the best teams in the league. The downside of that is that you can still be a very good team and not make it to the playoffs. Here are 5 such...
The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Bill Conlin: Ghosts of World Series past haunt Phillies We see you in the shadows, Ken Griffey Sr. The Phils led the Big Red Machine, 6-4, in the bottom of the ninth in 1976's Game 3. Then George Foster homered, Johnny Bench homered. Everybody walked off to a famous World Series with the Red Sox when Griffey scored Dave Concepcion with a one-out, bases-loaded single. Um, fact checking? LEE SHOWS HE'S...
OMGautos (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Who: Outfielder Bobby Tolan Team: Cincinnati Reds Card: 1972 Topps Acquired: TTM 1/1 10/20/2009 (7 days) Comments: Bobby Tolan adds another autographed '72 Topps to the project . Coming to the Reds in 1969, Bobby added speed to a pretty decent lineup of sluggers. He played a pretty big role in the Reds reaching the World Series in both '70 and '72. But, with the emergence of George Foster and Ken Griffey...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
by Mark Silva If CNN's Lou Dobbs drops the word "amnesty'' into most discussions of immigration, some of his critics say they aren't forgiving Dobbs. An ad calling on CNN to drop Dobbs apparently will air this week. On CNN. The cable news announcer's complaints about "broken borders'' have become a broken-record - "60 minutes of anti-immigrant hate'' -- according to the group whose...
Ken Devine - a day at a time (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Here we are on a bright Monday morning. It's our first day at our new desks. Kirsty in now opposite me with Christine next to me and Karen next to her. Opposite Karen is Dave and next to Dave and diagonally opposite me to the right is Maureen/Jo. Everyone is calm and talking about a singer who suddenly died (Gately)? I'm only half listening because I've got a stinker of a contract to sort out. Everyone...
Bob Lazzari On Sports (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I was just thinking that aging DOES have its benefits. Though the sports world we experience on a daily basis still attracts great interest from people of ALL ages, I DO feel sorry for those sports aficionados born within the past three decades or so. Why? Because if you were born after 1980........ * you didn't get to see the great Walter Payton carry the football in his prime--"Sweetness"...
ESPN (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Former Reds star George Foster has been picked to manage the Lake County Black Bears of the new Florida Winter Baseball League.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The George Foster Peabody Awards' 69th annual search for excellence in electronic media has begun. More than 100,000 "call for entries" alerts will be mailed worldwide, supplemented by ads in media-industry publications and Twitter messages. Origina...
OMGautos (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
With my '87 Topps Reds Project slowing to a virtual crawl, I've been itching for a new project to get going on. I've decided to attempt and get all the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Topps set autographed. It will be a good challenge for a lot of reasons, but not so tough that it's not worth going after. Here's a few reasons I've decided to take on this project: The '72 Reds were a fantastic team, and...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
AP Photo/Charles Sykes Diane Sawyer appears on ABC's "Good Morning America" show, in New York, Friday, August 21, 2009. When ABC announced this morning that Charlie Gibson will be retiring from “World News Tonight” in January, the network simultaneously welcomed a new anchor, a journalist who has won Emmys, Dupont Awards, Robert F. Kennedy awards, Investigative Reporters and...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Leveraged and inverse ETFs can be a boon or a bust, depending on an investor’s knowledge and skill in using the unique investment tool. Most people trade with this type of ETF in a short bursts, but there is a way to use this tool in a long-term strategy. In a study conducted on leveraged and inverse fund investments in the S&P 500, it is shown that that there...
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