--- In CincinnatiReds@yahoogroups.com, rick anderson
<nightimebandit@y...> wrote:
I have one more story about Crosley that I remembered
while reading your post. In 1961 my dad took me to my
first game there. Well it was my first game, I was six
years old, so you can imagine how excited I was. When
we were headed to our seats my Dad stopped at a stand
and got us two red-hots and two drinks, pepsi for me
beer for him lol. We were running a little late and
when we got to our seats the game had just started. So
he's carrying this food and sure enough, just as we
get to the seats a foul ball comes right at us. I had
no ideal what was happening, all I knew was everyone
was up and looking right at us. Then suddenly my Dad
drops the food and drinks and makes this big leap in
the air going after the ball. It hit his hand but got
away. Well afterward I kept asking him why he went for
it like that. I mean it was just a foul ball, they
come up here all the time. Forty one years later I've
still never caught one. But he did get me another dog
and coke. Best damn hot dog I ever put in my mouth.
Rick
--- Virgil Clausen <VClausen@s...> wrote:
> Thanks for the nice comments about my ramblings
> about Crosley Field,
> Rick I agree with your comments about Riverfront. It
> was to me also the
> teams not the park. Reds fans were privileged to
> watch one of the
> greatest teams to ever play baseball in the Big Red
> Machine. Those of us
> who saw them were spoiled by their success. As soon
> as I saw Pete the
> first time you knew he was going to be a great
> player, arrogant and
> thought himself above the game but still a great
> player. My son, whose
> favorite player was George Foster, now lives in the
> Bay Area and halfway
> roots for the Giants, when they move away you have
> no control over
> them(grin), always comments, "Dad, will there ever
> be a team like the
> Big Red Machine". I hope there will be one for the
> Reds again but with
> the present major league set up it will be
> difficult. My daughter loved
> Joe Morgan, what a classy guy, and sometimes when
> she would bat in
> softball she would flap her arm like he did. My wife
> at that time and my
> second wife both loved Pete Rose, women just loved
> that man. When we
> would go down to get autographs after the game at
> the players entrance
> you could watch Pete scan the crowd for the
> "lookers". We always sent
> the wives up front for the autographs and they would
> get them. Pete was
> also one of my favorite players, he had such a good
> work ethic it was
> hard not to admire what he accomplished. Griffey
> Senior was my favorite
> on the Machine though. So, yes it was the teams in
> Riverfront for me
> too, not the stadium
>
>


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