Word: geronimos
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While more publicity has been focused on Cincinnati's hitting attack, the Reds' fielding is equally unsurpassed. This season the Reds strung together fourteen consecutive errorless games, another alltime baseball record. Six Reds--Morgan, Concepcion, Bench, Rose, Perez and Geronimo -- have won Golden Glove awards in the past; four won last year alone...
Merle Haggard calls country lyrics "just journalism put to music." That definition suits some recent hits particularly well. There have been songs about ecology (One Hundred Children, Sonic Bummer, Don't Go Near the Water), welfare (Geronimo's Cadillac), amorphous doubts about politics and leadership (Vermont Suite: More Cows Than People) and alcoholism (Pay No Attention to Alice). Haggard's Irma Jackson is a touching look at interracial love ("There's no way the world will understand that love is colorblind/ That's why Irma Jackson can't be mine"). Tanya Tucker sings...
...cavalry had killed Indians before, but somehow this massacre sapped the Indians of their spirit. Most of the great leaders were gone-Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse had been murdered (see pages 6 and 7), Red Cloud and Big Foot died in the massacre, Geronimo was a prisoner...
...next afternoon, in the makeup game, it was the Reds who provided the ninth-inning histrionics. With the score tied 4-4, Rose singled Geronimo home from second to keep the Reds' series hopes alive. At week's end, back on their home ground, the Reds ended their drought. Led by Bench, who hit his first home run (and thus notched his first RBI) of the series, Cincinnati batters peppered four Oakland pitchers for ten hits in an 8-1 win, tying the Series at three games apiece and setting up Sunday's dramatic showdown...
Cincinnati took over the lead from Oakland in the final inning when Pete Rose lined a single into center to send Cesar Geronimo home...