In this ultimate resource guide for true fans of baseball’s first professional team, author Joel Luckhaupt has collected every essential piece of Cincinnati Reds trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranked them from one to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for fans to complete in their lifetime. Most Reds fans have taken in a game or two at the Great American Ball Park, have seen highlights of the Big Red Machine, and remember the team’s surprising triumph in the 1990 World Series. But only real fans know which 15-year-old took the mound for the Reds in 1944, can name the pitcher who gave up Pete Rose’s 4,192nd hit, or remember how many dogs owner Marge Schott owned. 100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the perfect book for any fan of Reds baseball, whether a die-hard booster from the days of Ted Kluszewski or a new supporter of Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, and Aroldis Chapman. Joel Luckhaupt is a statistician for Fox Sports Ohio and the coauthor of The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship . He has also served as contributing editor of the Maple Street Press Reds Annual . He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. 100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die By Joel Luckhaupt Triumph Books Copyright © 2013 Joel Luckhaupt All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60078-794-2 Contents Foreword by Dusty Baker, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. The Big Red Machine, 2. Joe Nuxhall, 3. Opening Day, 4. Pete Rose, 5. Johnny Bench, 6. The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 7. Sparky Anderson, 8. Marty Brennaman, 9. 4,192, 10. Frank Robinson, 11. Joe Morgan, 12. Joey Votto, 13. The 1975 World Series, 14. Tom Browning Has Pitched a Perfect Game!, 15. Barry Larkin, 16. Reds Trade for Speed and Get So Much More, 17. Vander Meer's Back-to-Back No-Hitters, 18. The Wire-to-Wire Reds, 19. Powel Crosley and Larry MacPhail, 20. Visit Great American Ball Park, 21. Bucky Walters, 22. 1976 Playoff Sweep, 23. 1972 Postseason, 24. Frank Robinson Trade, 25. Black Sox Scandal, 26. Bob Howsam, 27. Tony Perez, 28. Jose Rijo, 29. Attend Redsfest, 30. Jim Maloney, 31. Marge Schott, 32. Eric Davis, 33. Pete Rose Banned, 34. The 1940 World Championship, 35. Edd Roush, 36. Major League Baseball's First Night Game, 37. Visit Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, 38. The Nasty Boys, 39. Visit Reds Spring Training, 40. Bob Castellini, 41. Mario Soto, 42. Lou Piniella, 43. Ted Kluszewski, 44. Brandon Phillips, 45. Crosley Field, 46. Ken Griffey Jr., 47. Ernie Lombardi, 48. Harry and George Wright, 49. Attend Reds Fantasy Camp, 50. Bill McKechnie, 51. Hometown Reds, 52. Join a Reds Fan Group, 53. Vada Pinson, 54. George Foster, 55. Three Consecutive MVPs, 56. Don Gullett, 57. The 1970 NL Pennant Winners, 58. Gary Nolan, 59. Paul Derringer, 60. David Concepcion, 61. The Ragamuffin Reds, 62. Catch the Reds Caravan, 63. Dolf Luque, 64. Clinchmas 2010, 65. The Lost Seasons of 1981 and 1994, 66. Support the Reds Community Fund, 67. Riverfront Stadium, 68. Noodles Hahn, 69. Fifty Years and Four Shortstops, 70. The 1957 All-Star Ballot Stuffing, 71. Build a Reds Library, 72. Aroldis Chapman, 73. Eppa Rixey, 74. Sean Casey, 75. Johnny Cueto, 76. Waite Hoyt, 77. Fred Hutchinson, 78. Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell, 79. Pete Rose Collides with Ray Fosse, 80. Reds on the Radio, 81. Heinie Groh, 82. The 1995 Reds, 83. Tom Seaver, 84. Bid McPhee, 85. Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda, 86. Pete Rose's 44-Game Hit Streak, 87. Johnny Bench Night, 88. Pat Moran, 89. Frank McCormick, 90. Have a Day, Art Shamsky!, 91. Attend the Reds' Hall of Fame Gala, 92. Adam Dunn, 93. The Only Woman Ever to Bat in a Major League Game, 94. Check Out a Reds Minor League Affiliate, 95. Reds Fall One Game Short in 1999, 96. The Only Reds Team to Lose 100 Games, 97. Chris Sabo, 98. Cy Seymour, 99. 221 Home Runs in a Single Season, 100. The Stowes, Sources, CHAPTER 1 The Big Red Machine The Big Red Machine wasn't baseball's first dynasty, and it wasn't its last, either. However, it was the last great dynasty before free agency, an innovation that made dynasty-building both a baseball and business proposition. The team was also a collection of baseball archetypes. If you are a fan of the game, there is someone on this team to whom you likely feel connected. There was the hard-nosed hustler, the phenom, Mr. Clutch, Mr. Everything, the speedster, the masher, and the defensive wizards. And all of them were the best at who they were. There wasn't much that this team didn't have. Ultimately, though, it was the sheer dominance of the Big Red Machine that will keep them in baseball's consciousness for years to come. From 1970–76, they scored 199 more runs than any other team in baseball and they scored nearly 1,000 more runs than they allowed, outscoring their opponents by 0.88 R/G over those seven