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Like Cincinnati Reds fans everywhere, those in Letcher County were startled to learn 49 years ago this week — on December 9, — that Frank Robinson, the National League’s top player, had been traded to the American League’s Baltimore Orioles for starting pitcher Milt Pappas and two role players, outfielder Dick Simpson and pitcher Jack Baldschun.

“The trade is widely regarded as one of the worst in Major League baseball history,” The History Channel says today.

The trade came just four years after Robinson, who had been the NL’s Rookie of the Year in , won the league’s Most Valuable Player award while leading the Reds to the World Series, where they lost to the New York Yankees.

“Responding to the outrage of many Reds fans,” the History Channel says, “General Manager Bill DeWitt said Robinson was ‘an old ’”

In his first season with the Orioles, the “old” Robinson won baseball’s coveted Triple Crown with 49 homers, runs batted in, and a batting average. He also led Baltimore to a World Series victory over Los Angeles while becoming the first player to win MVP honors in both leagues.

Pappas pitched for the Reds for only /2 seasons, leaving with a record of Baldschun and Simpson lasted only two seasons.

Hall of Famer Robinson is now

Bike, William S. The Forgotten Chicago Cubs: Go and Glow. The History Press, Pp. Acknowledgments, bibliography, epilogue, end notes, index, photographs, preface, prologue, $ paperback.

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It still stings 52 years later. The Chicago Cubs won a World Series title in to snap a year drought, but will always remain the “what-if” season around the Friendly Confines.

The Cubs were sailing to the National League East title in and led the New York Mets by 8½ games as late as Aug. 7. It was a joyous time on the North Side, with Ron Santo clicking his heels after every victory. Managed by the brash and abrasive Leo Durocher, the Cubs had speed, power, and pitching. Even as late as September 3, the Cubs still held a five-game lead over the Mets with 25 games to play. But the Cubs went into a tailspin, losing eight straight games and 11 of their next The Mets took over first place on September 10 with a doubleheader sweep of the Montreal Expos, while the Cubs were losing to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets won the division going away, leaving the second-place Cubs eight games behind and wondering what might have been.

A bitter pill, indeed. But the Cubs still had all the pieces in , and actually came closer that season to winning the division than the bunch, finishing five games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.

William S. Bike examines that squad in his latest book, The Forgotten Cubs: Go and Glow. The title of the book comes from a prediction from Hall of Famer Ernie Banks. The eternal “Let’s Play Two” Cubbie said the team would “Go and Glow in ” (p. 20).

The Cubs certainly do not get a lot of respect. For example, Gerald Eskanazi’s biography of Leo Durocher, The Lip, mentions the season in a single sentence in the page book: “They finished second in and tied for third in ” Eskenazi wrote that “ remains to this day the year that crystallized (the Cubs’) frustrations, that mad

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Founded in , the Phillies are the oldest, continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in American professional sports and one of the most storied teams in Major League Baseball. Since their founding, the Phillies have won two World Series championships (against the Kansas City Royals in and the Tampa Bay Rays in ), eight National League pennants (the first of which came in ), and made playoff appearances in 15 seasons. The team has played consecutive seasons since the first modern World Series and seasons since its establishment. As of the end of the season, the Phillies have played 21, games, with a regular season record of 10,–11,– ().

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