The Cincinnati Reds: Baseball’s Global Emblem of Glorious Failure
CINCINNATI—From a distance of 7,000 km, the Cincinnati Reds look less like a baseball franchise and more like a controlled experiment in how much nostalgia a single city can inhale before developing a collective pulmonary embolism. Here, on the banks of the Ohio, locals still speak of the 1975-76 “Big Red Machine” the way Sicilians…