’75 Ems

Outfielder and New Jersey native Mickey Duval was signed in 1974 by the Reds from a tryout camp. He faced a long, hard road to the big leagues. He got as far as AAA with […]

Lynn Jones was a tenth-round draft pick of the Reds in 1974. He was a key member of the 1975 Eugene Emeralds championship team, and he later won World Series rings with Kansas City as […]

Pitcher John Underwood was drafted by the Reds in the 22nd round in June 1973. He was part of the 1975 Eugene Emeralds — the Little Red Wagon — that won the Northwest League championship. […]

In Part 1 (story here) we looked at the playing career of John Harrison, member of the 1975 Northwest League champion Eugene Emeralds — the “Little Red Wagon” to the parent-club “Big Red Machine” Cincinnati […]

Excerpted from my book The Little Red Wagon: The 1975 Eugene Emeralds. John Harrison was a member of the 1975 Eugene Emeralds, a Cincinnati Reds minor-league team that won the Northwest League Championship in dominant […]

I had a great time talking to Paul Moskau. As will sometimes happen, we talked about a great deal more than his baseball career. Here, for your amusement, are some of our “then and now” […]

Paul Moskau was part of a “new wave” of Reds players who came along as The Big Red Machine was winding down. The idea was that Paul and Mario Soto and Paul Householder and Duane […]