OT - Cool Story Bro

Submitted by Blue from Ohio on

Please be gentle as this is my first topic thread. I live in Ohio and every other year one of my friends organizes a bus trip to a Cincinnati Reds game.  Its all out as we have a charter bus, get a suite, etc.  The game wound up being a rain delay and eventually postponed, but even so, they still had a ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the 1990 World Series Champions team.  Our suite wound up being next to the suite for the team from 1990 so all of the players from the team walked past our suite and we got to shake hands with most of them and some even stopped in our suite to drink beer.  Some of you will remember the Nasty Boys and they passed by as well, some of which stopped to talk to us. Long story short, I approached Barry Larkin and made it clear I was probably the only Michigan fan in the stadium and asked for his autograph and he obliged.  I asked if he has spoken with Harbaugh and he said he has.  Just thought it was a cool story to pass along.  Go Blue.

Blue from Ohio

April 25th, 2015 at 11:36 PM ^

Yeah outside of the 1985 Bears (the Bears are my NFL team) they were one of the more noticeable teams in terms of personality (Rob Dibble, Randy Myers, Norm Charlton).  Not taking anything away from the great Detroit Pistons teams with Laimbeer, Thomas, Mahorn, but the 90s Reds team was pretty identifiable with the personas on that team.

rob f

April 25th, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^

but being a baseball fan, I do appreciate that they were World Champs and envy you for having had a chance to meet some of them.  Especially Barry Larkin.

Indeed a "cool story, bro" moment!

Monkey House

April 26th, 2015 at 1:09 AM ^

I use to date a girl who's dad was a former reds player and then a coach for them when I was dating her. I'm not a baseball fan but he asked if their was anyone's autograph I wanted. I said sure Larkin's. he said he doesn't usually sign a lot of things. a few weeks later I was down on the field before the game and my gf dad brought Barry over. I began to immediately talk about being a UM fan and about his time there. he then signed a ball and handed it to me and said "Go Blue" as he jogged off.

mgoblue11gvsu

April 26th, 2015 at 7:37 AM ^

My uncle played baseball with Barry at Michigan. I think they still occasionally keep in touch over the phone. My uncle was pretty close with Hal Morris too.

UM Indy

April 26th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^

I'm a huge Reds and Michigan fan so Larkin is easily my favorite baseball player ever. I went to Cooperstown for his induction a few years ago and got his autograph in A2 when I was a freshman. Winter of 1991 after they won the series Larkin, Morris and Sabo came for some type of recognition ceremony. Don't remember how I found out they were going to be there but me and a couple of buddies stood out in front of the athletic complex on South State and waited for them to show up. Barry was surprised there were Reds fans in Michigan but all three signed hats and balls.



It has been a long time since that amazing season and I fear it will be a lot longer until the Reds win another championship. Oh yeah, I'll end with this. Had tickets to Game 6 of the 1990 World Series that did not end up being used.