Sunday, October 24, 1999
Rose, Bench on century stage
Ex-Reds honored with 28 other greats tonight
BY JOHN FAY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Big Red Machine will be well represented tonight when the 18 living members of baseball's 30-man All-Century Team are honored before Game 2 of the World Series in Atlanta.
Big Red Machiners Pete Rose and Johnny Bench were named to the team. So was Ken Griffey Jr., the son of Machiner and Reds coach Ken Griffey. The younger Griffey was one of only four active players named.
The ceremony, which begins at 7:30, will be part of the NBC broadcast of the game. Major League Baseball is urging fans to be in the seats by then.
All eyes will be on Rose. This will be the first time he has been on a major-league field since his ban in 1989. Rose was elected in the ninth and final outfield spot.
Rose did not make a good first impression. He will miss today's news conference with the other members of the All-Century Team in order to make an appearance at a New Jersey casino.
Sparky Anderson, who managed the Reds' world championship teams in 1975 and '76, thinks second baseman Joe Morgan should have been named to the team as well.
“That's how good those teams were,” Anderson said. “If we had any pitching, those teams would have won 130 games.”
Anderson was supposed to head the panel that added five players overlooked by the fans. But he had to pull out after heart surgery in July.
“I'll be watching,” he said. “These are unbelievable players.”
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