Pitcher-turned-author Jim Brosnan's follow-up to The Long Season is equally as enjoyable a read, as he recounts his season spent with the pennant-winning Reds of 1961. I was surprised, however, that the journal and book didn't include Cincinnati's World Series match-up against the Yankees.
Todd was born in Ohio on the same day former Indians manager Ossie Vitt passed away; he became a Reds fan seven years later, attended 'Johnny Bench Nite' at Riverfront Stadium in 1983, and gave up on professional baseball entirely during the 1994 baseball strike. Currently, he resides in Arizona, where SP78 Replay and tapes of televised games from the ‘70s and ‘80s are his last links to the sport that deserted him.
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June 17, 1978