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The 1976 Cincinnati Reds season was the 107th season for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 7th and 6th full season at Riverfront Stadium. The Reds entered the season as the reigning World Series champions.
The 1976 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1976 season.The 73rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees.
The 1976 Major League Baseball season ended with the Cincinnati Reds winning their second consecutive World Series championship. This was the last season of the expansion era (dating back to 1961) until 1993 in which the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) had the same number of teams.
All of the Reds' four pennants in the 1970s came against these teams (Pittsburgh Pirates in 1970, 1972, and 1975, and Philadelphia Phillies in 1976). In 1979, Pete Rose added to the notion of the Big Red Machine being part of the rivalry when he signed with the Phillies and helped them win their first World Series championship in 1980 .
A founding member of the Big Red Machine, he won a Rookie of the Year, an MVP, two Gold Gloves and made 17 All-Star teams, winning three World Series rings along the way (1975-76 with the Reds ...
Hall of famer Edd Roush led Cincinnati to the 1919 World Series. In 1912, the club opened Redland Field (renamed Crosley Field in 1934), a new steel-and-concrete ballpark. The Reds had been playing baseball on that same site – the corner of Findlay and Western Avenues on the city's west side – for 28 years in wooden structures that had been ...
Cincinnati Reds third baseman Pete Rose, left, grimaced while watching the races at Keeneland on Oct. 13, 1976. Rose, relaxing before the World Series, attended the races with a high school pal ...
George Arthur Foster (born December 1, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player and scout.He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1969 through 1986, most notably as an integral member of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom he won two World Series championships, in 1975 and 1976.