Summary Of Making The Big Red Machine

Making the Big Red Machine is an in-depth dive into the Cincinnati Reds baseball team in the seventy’s and how they dominated. Daryl Smith writes the book, a lifelong Reds fan and director of the Leadership program at the College of Mount St. Joseph. The purpose of Smith writing this book was to give the perspective of the General Manager, Bob Howsam Jr. Smith explains that many books, articles, and media have been made about the players and manager, but not many about the GM who put the team together. A long-undervalued position in Major League Baseball, the GM signs players, makes trades, and has to follow all of the intricate rules that baseball sets in place for a level playing field between teams and its their job to put the best 40-man roster together and then 26 of the best on the active MLB roster. Choosing

They are, to this date, the only team in the divisional era to accomplish this feat. My thesis statement: In “Making the Big Red Machine,” author Daryl Smith dives into the brilliance of the Reds front office during the dynasty that turned a struggling franchise into a frontline winner and dominant force in Major League Baseball. Author Daryl Smith has written a plethora of books without much information about him being publicly available about him. Smith has been a lifelong Reds fan, which it can be inferred that’s why he chose to write a book about the Reds turning into a dynasty team in the 70’s. He attended the first game played at Riverfront stadium which was the Reds home field from June 30th, 1970, to September 22nd, 1999. He also attended World Series games in 1970, 1972, and 1975. He is the Director of the Organizational Leadership program at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, which also happens to be where the Reds call home. The author used famous players autobiographies and articles about the team to write this