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| | Sports - The Enquirer - June 12, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Special guests of Reds owner Garry Herrmann were George Wright, 72, from Boston, and Cal McVey, 69, from San Francisco, the lone surviving regulars of the 1869 Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team. |
 | | Mathewson, who had managed the Reds from 1916-18, was supposed to manage them again in 1919, but he'd been gassed during a drill with a chemical warfare unit in 1918 and hadn't received owner Herrmann's cablegrams. |
 | | Most of the Reds hitters, even cleanup man Roush, were slap hitters, although Roush could drive the ball when he had to. |
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