For the Cincinnati Reds, 1981 was a hallmark in two ways
"You can look at the 1981 season in two ways from the perspective of the Reds: It was the season the franchise got a raw deal from Major League Baseball, or it was the season that the Big Red Machine Era ended.
It was both."...
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