A Special Season for the Cincinnati Reds
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62145)
United States
January 17, 2019 9:34am CST
Win or lose (and, based on their recent performances, it'll probably be the latter), 2019 will be a very special season for the Cincinnati Reds.
Yesterday (1/16) longtime Reds radio announcer Marty Brennaman announced that this upcoming baseball season will be his last in the booth. Brennaman joined the Reds radio staff in 1974, replacing Al Michaels, who went to ABC television. What did he get to do right off the bat? How about call Hank Aaron's 714th home run?!
Brennaman was there for the "glory years" of the Big Red Machine, celebrating the back-to-back World Series titles in 1975-76 (and the Reds are still the last National League team to repeat as WS champs). He was also there for the bad times, like Pete Rose's banishment from baseball and Marge Schott's ownership. 
Brennaman was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame's broadcast wing in 2000 as recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. His longtime radio partner was Joe Nuxhall, the youngest person to ever play professional baseball. Nuxhall died in 2007.
It's fitting that Brennaman chose this year to retire. 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the Cincinnati Reds' first World Series title. Of course, given that it's tainted in scandal (that was the infamous "Black Sox" Series, where the Chicago White Sox were accused of being paid by mobster Arnold Rothstein in order to throw the Series to help bettors cash in on the heavily underdog Reds), I don't know how much that'll be celebrated. But, the history books show the 1919 World Series champions as the Cincinnati Reds, not "vacated," so who knows.
It's less than a month to PACR (Pitchers And Catchers Report), meaning the final season for yet another broadcasting legend will be getting underway.
Marty's call of the last out of the 1990 World Series:
Brennaman was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame's broadcast wing in 2000 as recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. His longtime radio partner was Joe Nuxhall, the youngest person to ever play professional baseball. Nuxhall died in 2007.
It's fitting that Brennaman chose this year to retire. 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the Cincinnati Reds' first World Series title. Of course, given that it's tainted in scandal (that was the infamous "Black Sox" Series, where the Chicago White Sox were accused of being paid by mobster Arnold Rothstein in order to throw the Series to help bettors cash in on the heavily underdog Reds), I don't know how much that'll be celebrated. But, the history books show the 1919 World Series champions as the Cincinnati Reds, not "vacated," so who knows.
It's less than a month to PACR (Pitchers And Catchers Report), meaning the final season for yet another broadcasting legend will be getting underway.
Marty's call of the last out of the 1990 World Series:
10/20/90: Randy Myers gets Carney Lansford to pop out to complete the Reds four-game sweep of the 1990 World Series Check out http://MLB.com/video for more! ...
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Jan 19
He fell a little short of Vin's record.
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@dgobucks226 (34369)
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18 Jan 19
A distinguished, enthusiastic, and opinionated style made him such a popular Reds announcer. He called Tom Seaver's only no-hitter in 1978 when Seaver was a member of the Reds. As a Mets fan I was crushed when they traded Tom 
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@FourWalls (62145)
• United States
18 Jan 19
Ah, I remember that night. I was 18, my dad was at work, and I called him on the phone to give him the details.
Marty also called some other history:
Tom Browning’s perfect game (only one in Reds history)
The only two grand slams in the same inning by the same batter (Fernando Tatis, against the Reds)
Scooter Gennett becoming the first Red to hit four homers in a game
Oh, and hit #4,192..... 
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@dgobucks226 (34369)
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20 Jan 19
@FourWalls Oh yes some memorable calls for sure! I remember Browning's perfecto. Somewhere, Joe Nuxhall is smiling 
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