Mr. Stats Notes: Reds kick off action (as nature intended) - NBC Sports

Mr. Stats Notes: Reds kick off action (as nature intended) - NBC Sports

On Sunday morning at 11:35 am, the slate of baseball games starts in Cincinnati. It seems fitting, since a rite of spring when I grew up in the 1970s and 80s was that the first pitch of the season was thrown in Cincinnati.The Reds in the early part of their history (and as one of the charter members of the N.L., that history goes back to 1876) always had their season start at home. In part, that was because Cincinnati was the southern-most city …