Johnny Bench used to slide head first, too. But once he came to the Reds, Bench "never slid head first again because ... that was Pete's thing." ...

Joe Morgan trade? Maybe. George Foster trade? Not really. Sparky Anderson hiring? Sort of. Here's the story when the Big Red Machine was really born.

The Reds have turned the Rose honors into a weekend gala. They reunited members of their 1976 Big Red Machine championship team on the field Friday night before a game against the San Diego Padres ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – About the time Pete Rose broke into the big-leagues at breakneck speed and introduced Cincinnati to such baseball thrills as headfirst flights into bases, a ...

And the Big Red Machine was born. Or was it? In fact, Foster's arrival in Cincinnati is only a small, if important, piece of the story of how a very strong and dogged Reds team rose from among a ...