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Dodgers at Reds Series 9/21 thru 9/23/12


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It’s the smallest of the integers, but the greatest of the ordinals.

 

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It is its own factorial, its own cube, and its own square.* It is a divisor of every other number.

 

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One has identified many many things – from hydrogen to Oscar Robertson, Thomas the Tank to the Warren Moon, Nate The Skate Archibald to the General Lee.*

 

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More significantly, in baseball, the number one identifies the pitcher’s position, and it has been worn by various greats over the decades: Pee Wee Reese, Bobby Doerr, Whitey Ashburn, Billy Martin, Ozzie Smith, and for the Cincinnati Reds, it was worn by the well liked, but ill-fated Fred Hutchinson – who turned the team around following the dismal ’59 and ’60 seasons to win the National League penant in 1961, and who was the first MLB manager to ever write Peter Edward Rose’s name on a score card

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