Big Red Machine

From BR Bullpen

Big Red Machine refers to the great Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1970's that dominated baseball. In the period of 1970-79, managed mostly by Sparky Anderson, the Reds won the division six times, and won the World Series in 1975 and 1976. The team only once finished lower than 2nd in the division in that period.

The team's peak was in 1975 when it won 108 games, with hitters such as Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, MVP Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, George Foster, Dave Concepcion, Cesar Geronimo, Dan Driessen, and Ken Griffey, Sr..