With a rich history that includes a storied rivalry with the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees, author Tom Van Riper looked beyond traditional history to dive into the 1970s matchups between the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers in “Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Rivalry.”
Somehow, it’s as though star-studded rosters with the likes of Dodgers’ Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Don Sutton and Reds’ Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Pete Rose weren’t competing for supremacy during a time when the American League and National League only had East and West divisions.