There was plenty of offense as the 1970 team posted a come-from-behind 11-7 victory over 1961 in the third game of their opening round series of the Stat-O-Matic Reds Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. Tony Perez knocked in three runs for 1970 with a homer and a sacrifice fly, while Lee May, Bobby Tolan […]
Category: 1970s Baseball History
George Foster got the favored 1975 team off to a good start in the opening round of the Stat-O-Matic Reds Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. The 1975 team needed just two games in the best of three series to eliminate the 1995 squad. Foster drove in four runs in the first contest as 1975 […]
Spring training games are just getting underway this week. With that in mind and some excitement building in Cincinnati, hopefully, it’s time for another Strat-O-Matic tournament presented by Press Room Pass. This time, eight of the top teams in Cincinnati Reds history will square off to become champions again or for the first time. Each […]
Editor’s note: Throughout this year Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. When Mike Corkins was signed out of […]
Editor’s note: Throughout this year Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. Time has a way of making baseball […]
Editor’s note: Throughout this year Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. A major statistical change occurred 50 years […]
If you are a baseball fan, it’s likely that you remember your first major league game. I had just turned 10 years old in 1973 and as part of my birthday present my parents arranged for me to take a trip to a Cincinnati Reds game with the local Boy’s Club. The Reds would be […]
There were a lot of changes happening in major league baseball during the 1970s. Arbitration was a word that was unfamiliar in a baseball sense back then, however, in 1974 that changed. The name of Dick Woodson may not be well known today, but he became the first player to win a salary arbitration case […]
Replacing a Hall of Fame player isn’t an easy task, but that is exactly what Richie Zisk did in his first major league game for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates had just scored six times in the bottom of the seventh to lead Chicago by 10 runs in a contest on their way to a […]
Happy birthday! Two of my childhood favorites are celebrating their birth today. Hank Aaron was born in 1934, while Roger Staubach came into the world in 1942. Neither one of these icons played for my favorite teams, but growing up in the 1970s, it was pretty hard to not be a fan of the two […]