Injuries to pitchers are not endemic to the Reds. Q: Why are Reds’ pitchers hurt so often and it seems like all the time in the last few years? - DENNIS, Cincinnati.Ī: That’s one for Mother Nature. We traveled on charter airplanes, but I always wished we could go by trains.

When I began covering the Reds in 1973, Al Michaels and Joe Nuxhall were making road trips. As for broadcasters, they were limited by technology, and it improved so much that they began traveling in the 1960s. Q: As a kid, I listened to Waite Hoyt re-create Reds road games from a Cincinnati studio by reading a Western Union ticker, so when did broadcasters and writers start traveling with the team? - JERRY, Springfield.Ī: Writers traveled with the team as far back as the 1920s and I still love reading about scribes traveling with the teams on trains and interacting with the players in Pullman cars. You can’t even buy a bag of peanuts at the ballpark for that price. And it can be purchased online for as low as $5.79. It breaks baseball down to the common denominator.

Q: Is there a small, current volume that simplifies baseball that I can study so that I don’t feel like a dummy since I’ve begun watching the Reds and following your stories? - VIVIAN, Piqua.Ī: I certainly never would call you a dummy, but since you used the term, I can suggest a book called ‘Baseball For Dummies,’ written by former Reds player and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan with Richard Lally. Moral: Get your sleep the night before a league meeting. When he awoke, the league had taken his franchise and divided his players among the other clubs, many to the Columbus Buckeyes.

As the story goes, team representative John Matthews fell asleep during a league meeting after the season. They finished last that first year with a 16-36 record, 23 games behind the Chicago American Giants. They were the Dayton Marcos because owner Moses Moore owned the New Marcos Hotel. Dayton had a team in the first professional black league, the Negro National League, when it was formed in 1920.

Q: You recently listed players who had Dayton backgrounds playing in the majors, so were there any Dayton players in the old Negro Leagues? - JACK, BeavercreekĪ: I’m sure there were, although records are flimsy. And I didn’t even balk at answering this question. It looks as if the umpires might not like the New York Yankees. The Reds have had three balks called on them so far.

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