A couple days late but Tyler Kepner had an outstanding piece in the Times on Tuesday, discussing the 1990 Reds and their first Hall of Fame inductee. Apparently every World Series Champ before the wild card era had a player enshrined except the Reds, until Monday.
I know this is about Larkin, but I just love this quote from Eric Davis on his table-setting blast:
“I had faced [Stewart] in the All-Star Game,” Davis said. “He threw me a first-pitch fastball and I took it, and then he threw four splitters in the dirt and walked me. So if he was going to start me off with a fastball, I was not going to take it. And everything else is history.”
The whole thing is good.