A time to build up, a time to break down.
Around the time Frank Robinson was winning the National League Rookie of the Year award as an outfielder for the Reds, Pete Seeger was rearranging a passage from the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes into a folk song. The lyrics are familiar.
A time to laugh, a time to weep.
Anyone who follows the Cincinnati Reds appreciates the theme: the passing of seasons. Different kinds of seasons. To be sure, Reds fans have known seasons for celebrating and others for crying.