Pete Rose on the Big Red Machine ... two white core starters during those two World Series runs – Rose and catcher Johnny Bench. The rest of the so-called "Great Eight" included three black ...

That’s how Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Tony Perez both describe their clubhouse during the height of the Big Red Machine 50 years ... between black and white (players),” Perez said during ...

And he was the best player on my favorite team, the one they called the Big Red Machine ... black man in a Dixiefied river city, he was never embraced by the fans quite as the white, easy-smiling ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – About the time Pete Rose broke into the big-leagues at breakneck speed and introduced Cincinnati to such baseball thrills as headfirst flights into bases, a ...

The team's standout performance, or what's now known as the Big Red Machine, was powered by the Great Eight: Johnny Bench, David Concepción, César Gerónimo, George Foster, Ken Griffey ...

There were ways of stopping "The Big Red Machine" during its dominance from ... lost NL Championship Series to N.Y. Mets, 3-2 1974 -- Finished 98-64, second in NL West 1975 -- Finished 108-54 ...

But while Rose rightfully gets credit for popularizing the move that led to the extinction of the hook slide, the lesser known part of the headfirst legacy from those Big Red Machine years is that ...