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Figures the Cardinals would be involved, the Reds always get stuff from them.
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Looking at the photo of Ruehlmann, Dale and DeWitt, I noticed that the new owners bought the club for $7MM with DeWitt having paid $4.6MM in 1962. The franchise today is worth well over $500MM.
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If I recall correctly Jose Rijo was the first to wear 27 for quite sometime.
Nice article Randy. I used to wonder the same thing.
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Bring the logo back. That logo >>>>>>>>>> (to infinity) other Reds logos
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Although the following has nothing to do with the question of why Mr. Red wore no. 27 I once read an interview of Pete Rose where Rose said that in his first spring training he was issued no. 27, which he regarded as being a number given to players who were not going to stick with the major league club. He learned he had " made the show" when he came to his locker shortly before the team was to leave spring training for Cincinnati and discovered he had been given a jersey with no. 14.
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I suspect if that logo were brought back, the team would produce a dozen different iterations of it to encourage multiple purchases and to reflect all of the uniform iterations possible nowadays. (Red cap, white jersey; Red cap with black bill, red jersey; Black cap, white jersey; etc.) That might be worse than not bringing it back.
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I read the thread title, thought "no" and then clicked on it anyway.
The subconscious wins again.
That was a fun read, thanks for posting
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As a kid I always thought of Rijo when I saw it.
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When I was a kid and saw The Mr. Red logo, Jose Rijo was 4 years old.
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