“The Big Red Machine”

George “Sparky” Anderson is gone and he will be missed, after leading “The Big Red Machine” in Cincinnati and what about those teams with:

Pete Rose
Johnny Bench
Tony Perez
Joe Morgan
Dave Concepcion(This Top Five is unreal.)
Bobby Tolan
Dan Driessen
Ken Griffey Sr.
Ceasar Geronimo
George Foster
Don Gullett
Bill Plummer
Ray Knight
Nick Esasky
Ron Oester
Dave Collins
And on and on and who are we leaving out here????? There has to be some more pitchers that we haven’t named….This is a piece of baseball and sports history, “The Big Red Machine”…….I did all of these guys from memory and there must be more names that we need to add…..

*****Hey, and I had to get Bobby Tolan in there, does anybody else out there at all, remember Bobby Tolan????? I hadn’t thought about that tall lanky outfielder in many years….*****

14 thoughts on ““The Big Red Machine”

  1. I also saw the name Wayne Granger show up somewhere and did Tom Seaver work for Sparky? I remember when Tom Terrific was there, but was Sparky still there? He must have still been there for a while, cause didn’t Seaver show up like in ’78, but that might have been outside “The Big Red Machine” range……

  2. Wasn’t part of The Big Red Machine, but wasn’t Tommy Helms at 2nd base before Joe Morgan came in from the Houston Astros? Someone will know…

  3. This was my team in the day and no Tom Seaver was never with the Reds. How about
    Clay Carroll
    Pedro Borbon
    Fred Norman
    Clay Kirby
    Ed rmbrister
    Rawly Eastwick
    Pat Darcy
    Will McEananey
    Gary Noland
    to name a few more

  4. Tom Seaver was with the Reds and guys like Clay Carroll, Pedro Borbon, Rawley Eastwick and Will McEananey, even Ed Armbruster, that’s a blast from the past….

  5. Grew up watching these guys and Sparky was the man ! We all acted like we were Joe Morgan when we were batting (remember how he would pump that arm ?), and had to have a black bat like Foster and field like Davey Concepcion and slide head first like Pete ! Brought back some great memories of that time in Ohio. So sorry to see Sparky leave us. He was a great guy !

  6. My cousin and I loved baseball and even made up an elaborate game using short bats and a practice golf ball. I was alway Cincy and he was the Mets. We had the entire lineup memmorized. That’s why this post is so meaningful to me. As “cincy” said I always did the chicken wing thing when Morgan was up.

    Do you remember the Pete Rose Bud Harrelson fight when Rose went into second a little strong? I practice golf ball beaned Cousin Harrelson several at bats after that little incident.

  7. Remember that incident with Harrelson like it was yesterday ! Great memories !I met Eddie Milner out on the grass at Riverfront on fan picture day. He stood right next to Ken Griffey and I thought I was going to pass out. That was a great day !

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