Yes, that's right. I've been a Cincinnati Reds fan since about 1970. Unfortunately, however, I never had a chance to watch a game at Crosley Field. My first in-person game (at age 9) came in 1971 at Riverfront Stadium, which many people hated, but I loved it. I knew every inch of that ballpark. My brother and I had season tickets for 2 straight years (1977 and '78). We went to tons of games in those days.
And I even made a visit to Candlestick Park in 1975 to watch the Reds play the Giants in 2 games. George Foster hit a grand-slam in one of those games off Randy Moffitt (I'm sure you remember him, the brother of Billie Jean King).
One of the first games I ever attended (in 1971) was also against your Giants, Kirk (you are a big Giants fan, right?). The S.F. pitcher that day was Gaylord Perry, and I think he was ejected for throwing the spitter in that game. I don't have a specific memory of seeing Willie Mays play for the Giants in that '71 game, but I would have to think that Willie probably was in the lineup. That was his last full season as a Giant.
http://dvp-video-audio-archive.blogspot.com/2017/09/Legends Of Baseball: Willie Mays
My greatest baseball memory came on July 4, 1972 (Reds vs. Cardinals at Riverfront). After the game in the parking garage under the stadium, I managed to get 13 members of the Cincinnati Reds to sign my scorebook, including All-Stars Johnny Bench and Tony Perez [Photo Here]. That's over half the roster in just one single autograph session! Hard to beat that!
Kirk, you might enjoy the Giants game linked below, which I added to one of my websites in 2017 after I found it online. It's a dandy game, featuring Harry Caray in the radio booth and back-to-back homers by the 2 "Willies" (Mays and McCovey)....
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I want to say Thanks to the EF mods for permitting us to go off-topic for a while to talk about the grand ol' game of baseball. I like to reminisce about old baseball memories once in a while. My heyday for such Major League Baseball memories is circa 1972 to 1986. You wouldn't believe the number of hours I used up while compiling and typing up hundreds of homemade Cincinnati Reds scorebooks in the early '80s. I've taken screen captures of 8 of my scorebooks here:
http://dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com/2019/04/DVP's Cincinnati Reds Scorebooks
I kept track of some stats in the '80s that I don't think they even keep track of today.
Also see my Cincinnati baseball collection below....
(Many Giants games here too!)....