Thankful for Her Peaches

Grandma stopped listening after the 6th inning when the Reds were playing the Braves in Atlanta on 9/24/77. She tells us that she “could have heard it on WAVE (local NBC affiliate) after I went to bed (from 6th inning on) but was too tired and had to get up for 7 A.M. Mass-so I sacrificed the game. I was too thankful for my peaches!!” She was canning peaches earlier that Saturday afternoon.

She was also canning peaches on 9/24/83 when the Reds were playing the Padres in Cincinnati. Johnny Bench pinch hit for Tom Foley in B9 and he hit a walk-off RBI single to LF off Floyd Chiffer driving in Paul Householder. The Reds won 3-2.