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...impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...Matty Alou (.330) for National League batting honors. Equally notable is his penchant for playing every second as if his spikes were hot out of the forge, with a headlong slide here, a diving catch there, and everywhere a run, run, run. "If I had eight Pete Roses," says Cincinnati Manager Dave Bristol, "we'd run all over the league." Adds Teammate Tommy Helms: "It makes you tired just being around...
...Cards game," he says, "where Enos Slaughter drew a walk and ran hard to first base. I decided right then that that was what I was going to do as long as I played ball." A more immediate propellant was Pete Sr., a semipro football player with the old Cincinnati Bengals, who taught his son to switch...
...Pete was the apple of his father's sporting eye, nobody else was interested in a 5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb. infielder. Nobody, except Uncle Buddy Bloebaum, who just happened to be a Cincinnati scout. At 18, Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited...
Only his heirs could care whether a millionaire throws away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing...