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Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Reds have been playing professional baseball in one form or another since 1869, and through the years, they have had a variety of legendary players don the uniform. In the early and mid 1970s "The Big Red Machine" had arguably the best starting lineup from top to bottom of the previous three decades: Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan, Dave Concepcion, Pete Rose, Cesar Geronimo, George Foster, and Ken Griffey. Their championship 1975 season resulted in the now legendary Game 6 against the Boston Red Sox, followed by an awesome display of professionalism and dominance in the 1976 World Series as the Reds swept the star-struck New York Yankees. After a fourteen year drought, the Reds again swept their opponent in a significant upset. Cincinnati out-pitched and out-played the defending champions, the Oakland Athletics, and completed a wire-to-wire season with their fifth championship in franchise history.

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