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texasdave
03-17-2010, 02:39 PM
...uniforms that is. Mix in a little sunshine, baseball and green beer and you have the perfect afternoon. And baseball has the Reds to thank for it.

Maybe Cincinnati Reds general manager Dick Wagner was bored after tooling the Big Red Machine into back-to-back World Series winners in 1975 and 1976. Maybe he grew nostalgic for the days when his gimmicks popularized the Ice Capades. Or maybe he just liked pulling a fast one.

Link to rest of article on MLB.com

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100316&content_id=8811150&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

:beerme:

Incidentally, Bob Howsam was the architect of the Big Red Machine, but still a nice story.
BLEEDS
03-17-2010, 03:19 PM
This thread is useless without pictures!

Man I'd love to see some pics from that day!

PEACE

-BLEEDS
BLEEDS
03-17-2010, 03:55 PM
Found some, from the post in tORG.

NNIIIIICE!

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texasdave
03-17-2010, 04:02 PM
Here are a of couple links:If you scroll through the pages you can see the jerseys for Griffey Sr., Morgan, Rose and Geronimo.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mdsportsconnection.com/images/baseball/PBB0461_500.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.mdsportsconnection.com/baseball.aspx%3FstrType%3DJersey%26intLow%3D30%26i ntCount%3D46&usg=___j2Q9SLQOwOGBwd-uxB6hPLPDso=&h=600&w=435&sz=53&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5PONd0Sg1p_6uM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1978%2Breds%2Bst%2Bpatrick%2527s%2Bda y%2Buniforms%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1

And here is a link to see the cap:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dugout-memories.com/1978red.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dugout-memories.com/cinred.html&usg=__AzYpi8qPwFJx0io04yVvLf_SKEk=&h=204&w=218&sz=7&hl=en&start=8&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=q6o-bRYPwXlDsM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1978%2Breds%2Bst%2Bpatrick%2527s%2Bda y%2Buniforms%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1
Redsnake
03-17-2010, 04:19 PM
My dad's friend owns a game worn St. Patricks's Day jersey of Pete Rose. We've been trying to buy it off of him for years.
BLEEDS
03-17-2010, 05:01 PM
Nice!

Thanks texas dave!

PEACE

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