At the same time that I bought that, I also bought tapes of the 1978 or 1979 ‘Phillies beat the Cubs 23-22 on a day when the wind was blowing out of Wrigley’; the final game of the 1979 World Series, the 1977 or 1978 World Series game in which Reggie Jackson hit 3 homers, Tom Seaver’s no-hit of the Cardinals in 1978, etc. etc. I could go on and on.

By the way, you can get that ‘76 series with the Yankees on CD now. I think you can get the playoff games against the Phillies as well. The best are the recordings of Bob Prince for the 1975 playoffs. He was the Pittsburgh announcer and you should hear the bastard poor-mouthing everybody on the Reds. At the end, staring at a 3-game sweep, he had changed his tune. Douchebag.

The best is Al Michael’s and Joe Nuxhall calling the 5th game of the 1972 Playoffs between the Reds and the Pirates. Trailing 3-2 in the ninth, Johnny Bench comes up and hits an opposite field home run to tie the game. Perez singles and George Foster comes in to pinch-run. Foster eventually scores from 3rd when Bob Moose throws a wild pitch. I get choked up just remembering it now.

Last bit of unrelated trivia: Channel 5 in Cincinnati televised the Reds that year (1972) and to start the TV broadcasts, they played the opening non-vocal portion of Chicago’s “Make Me Smile”. To this day, when I hear that song on the radio, I think ‘72 Reds.