-- The powerful New York Yankees won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely played finale.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

On December 9, 1965, the Orioles traded pitcher Milt Pappas ( and several others ) to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for slugging outfielder Frank Robinson.

After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.

Selig suspended Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott for a year in 1993 for repeated racially insensitive and prejudicial remarks and actions.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

There was also a complication: Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds were in need of a facility to replace the antiquated, obsolete Crosley Field, which they had used since 1912.

However, Crosley was adamant that the Reds remain in Cincinnati and tolerated worsening problems with the Crosley Field location, which were exacerbated by the Millcreek Expressway ( I-75 ) project that ran alongside the park.

In 1970 the Bengals moved to play at Riverfront Stadium, a home they shared with the Cincinnati Reds until the team moved to Paul Brown Stadium in 2000.

The Ohio Cup was an annual pre-season baseball game, which pitted the Ohio rivals Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

Major losses were all to free agency ( second baseman Kaz Matsui went to the Houston Astros and pitcher Josh Fogg went to the Cincinnati Reds ).

On September 18, 1897, Young pitched the first no-hitter of his career in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.

The same day, the Fish dealt RHP Ryan Dempster to the Cincinnati Reds for OF Juan Encarnacion and LHP Ryan Snare.

In November 1971 the Astros and Cincinnati Reds made one of the most blockbuster trades in the history of the sport, and helped create The Big Red Machine of the 1970s, with the Reds getting the better end of the deal.

On April 13, Aaron made his major league debut and was hitless in five at-bats against the Cincinnati Reds ' left-hander Joe Nuxhall.

On May 17, Aaron collected his 3, 000th hit, in a game against the Cincinnati Reds, the team against which he played his first game.

* 1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bench was drafted 36th overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1965 amateur draft, playing for the minor-league Buffalo Bisons in the 1966 and 1967 seasons before being called up to the Reds in August 1967.

The Cincinnati Reds proclaimed September 17, 1983, " Johnny Bench Night " at Riverfront Stadium.

The Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s earned the nickname " the Big Red Machine ," and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest teams ever.

* Frank Bonner, born in Little Rock and raised in Malvern, an actor and director best known for playing Herb Tarlek on the classic 1970s and 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati

The 1970s television show, WKRP in Cincinnati, parodied the turkey drop on one of their best-known episodes.

* Gary Sandy-Professional actor ; star of 1970s CBS television comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati

Among them were Ray Pinney of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Cedrick Hardman of the 1970s San Francisco 49ers and early 1980s Oakland Raiders, Anthony Carter ( Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions ), Arthur Whittington ( Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills ), Bobby Hebert ( New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons ), Gary Plummer ( San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers ), Raymond Chester ( Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Colts ), Albert Bentley ( Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers ), Dave Browning ( Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, New England Patriots ), Ray Bentley ( Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals ), Dale Markham ( St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers ) and Derek Holloway ( Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).

* 1994: Featured in the Ken Burns documentary " Baseball " during the 1970s Cincinnati Reds " Big Red Machine " story.

** Dave Concepción, former Major League baseball player, was an All-Star shortstop, playing his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds during the 1970s and 1980s

He starred in dozens of films from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, such as Fear Strikes Out ( 1957 ), Pollyanna ( 1960 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Gypsy ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), and Patton ( 1970 ), playing General Omar Bradley.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, they moved into Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio.

Located on the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, the stadium was best known as the home of " The Big Red Machine ," as the Reds were often called in the 1970s.

César Francisco Gerónimo Zorrilla ( born March 11, 1948 ), known as César Gerónimo, is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball, who was a member of the famed Big Red Machine of the Cincinnati Reds during the 1970s.

Since the 1970s, when all of US 25 was deleted north of Cincinnati, Ohio, it is now entirely M-25.

James T. Luken ( December 31, 1921 – July 12, 1979 ) was an American politician and labor union leader of the Democratic party, who served as mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1970s.

A contending team in the mid-late 1970s through the 1980s, the Cincinnati Bengals had fallen on hard times in the 1990s and had had several head coaches.

It was a recreation of the WSAI that dominated Cincinnati ratings in the 1960s and early 1970s and returned original WSAI DJs to the air, such as Dusty Rhodes, Jack Stahl, Ted McAllister and Casey Piotrowski.

In the 1970s and 1980s, actress Loni Anderson portrayed curvy blonde character Jennifer Marlowe as an intelligent, eloquent, and sophisticated anti-stereotype on the American sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

Joining 42-year-old first baseman Pete Rose were 1970s Cincinnati Reds teammates, 41-year-old first baseman Tony Perez and 39-year-old second baseman Joe Morgan.

The second single, " The Tarleks ", was loosely inspired by the character of Herb Tarlek from the 1970s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

The Padres were the class AAA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds from 1962 – 65 ; some of their players ( including Tony Perez ) would become vital cogs of what was called the " Big Red Machine " Reds ' teams of the 1970s.

Ruud's father, Tom Ruud, played for the Cornhuskers in the early 1970s and later in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals.

He studied at Grinnell College in the mid 1970s and began playing in jazz clubs in Cincinnati.

The Robinson deal somewhat clouded DeWitt's Cincinnati legacy, although many of the players he had signed or developed became key members of the team's " Big Red Machine " dynasty of the 1970s.