Thursday, January 06, 2000
Big swat could make splash
BY DAN KLEPAL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Forget swinging for the fences. When Cincinnati Reds sluggers come to bat in the team's new baseball stadium they'll be swinging for the river.
The Reds' new home, estimated to cost $235 million and scheduled to be completed in time for the 2003 season, will be just close enough to the Ohio River that a long ball could make a splash. Make that a very, very long ball.
To get wet, a baseball will have to travel about 500 feet — something Mark McGwire accomplished more than five times during the 1998 season.
A shorter home run that manages to leave the ballpark also could land in the river, if it takes a healthy bounce off Mehring Way.
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