Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten

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Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry

Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they donâ€™t even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs. Reds was the best rivalry in Major League Baseball. They boasted the biggest names of the gameâ€”Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Don Sutton, and Ron Cey, to name a fewâ€”and appeared in the World Series seven out of nine years.

In Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry, Tom Van Riper provides a fresh look at these two powerhouse teams and the circumstances that made them so pivotal. Van Riper delves into the players, managers, executives, and broadcasters from the rivalry whose impact on baseball continued beyond the 1970sâ€”including the first recipient of Tommy John surgery (Tommy John himself), the all-time hit king turned gambling pariah (Pete Rose), and two young announcers who would soon go on to national prominence (Al Michaels and Vin Scully). In addition, Van Riper recounts in detail the 1973 season when both teams were at or near their peak form, particularly the extra-inning nail-biter between the Reds and Dodgers that took place on September 21 and effectively decided the divisional race.

Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue includes never-before-published interviews with former players from the rivalry, providing a personal and in-depth look at this decade in baseball full of upheaval and change. Baseballâ€™s realignment in 1994 may have rendered this great rivalry nearly forgotten, but its story is one that will be enjoyed by baseball fans and historians of all generations.

Country	USA
Author	Tom Van Riper
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781442275393
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
NumberOfPages	228
PublicationDate	2017-04-13
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ReleaseDate	2017-04-13
Studio	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry

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