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'70 World Series Program

Going to the '70 World Series
(I'm the little guy )

" I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the starting eight of the " Big Red Machine " is the greatest of all-time. But if somebody else has a better one I want to sit and watch it."
Sparky Anderson

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	Hello and welcome to my sports card collection. I've been an avid collector of sports cards and memorabilia since my youth. I grew up a big Reds fan so alot of my "treasures" are of the Big Red Machine. My fondest memories are going to the Reds games with my granddad in the late sixty's and early seventy's when I was a kid. Johnny Bench and Pete Rose were my favorite players. I remember in 1970 ( the year Riverfront opened ) watching the all star game on a little portable tv at my neighbors house that he had set up on his back porch. We watched late into the evening as the game went into extra innings. In the 12th with Pete Rose on second, Jim Hickman of the Cubs hits a weak liner up the middle and here comes Rose rounding third and heading for home. We're on the edge of our seats anticipating a play at the plate when Rose barrels into Ray Fosse and scores the winning run for the National League. What excitement for a ten year old kid, I was hooked after that. I also was lucky enough that same year when the Reds won the pennant my granddad and my mom both sent in for World Series tickets and we got tickets for the first two games of the World Series to be played at Riverfront. The first game was really close, tied in the sixth 3 to 3 when Bernie Carbo tries to score the go ahead run. Elrod Hendricks (Orioles catcher ) has the ball in his hand and tags the sliding Carbo with his glove as he goes by. Apparently everyone in the stadium sees it except Ken Burkhardt ( the home plate ump ) and calls Carbo out. The place just erupted. What a terrible call. After that the momentum shifted and the Reds ended up losing 4 to 3. I remember the next day the front page of the paper showing Hendricks with the ball in his hand and tagging Carbo with his empty glove. Oh well, one game down, always tomorrow. Our seats for game two were in the first row of the green seats in dead center field. Things are going great, the Reds are ahead 4 to 0 in the fourth when Boog Powell hits a towering home run to dead center field that lands three seats to my left from where I'm sitting making it 4 to 1. Then in the fifth the Orioles explode for 5 runs taking the lead 6 to 4. The Reds fight back to cut it to one on Bench's homer in the sixth to make it 6 to 5. It stays that way the rest of the game. With two outs in the ninth, Jimmy Stewart comes up to pinch hit. He hits a rocket shot to dead center field coming right at us. Paul Blair, the Orioles center fielder was notorious for playing shallow. I thought there was no way he was getting that one, I thought it was gone. Anyway, Blair races back and makes a great catch against the wall for the final out right underneath us. Orioles up two zip going home. What a bummer. I remember the next year on the opening for Wide World of Sports they always showed Blairs catch against the wall of Stewarts shot in the 9th in game 2 with me right over top of him. What I remember most about that World Series is the total domination of Brooks Robinson. It seems everyone on the Reds kept hitting it to him and he kept eating them up. He threw Lee May out at first from the coaches box along the third base line . Brooks was the Series MVP. I was blessed to see Brooks Robinson at his finest . So many good memories of the Reds and hanging out with my granddad. My granddad loved baseball and he loved me. We had some great times.