Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Coins

I meant to get this up earlier this week but I've was really busy all week and have just now gotten around to having time to write. Anyway, I found these hiding in one of my boxes of commons and I'd completely forgotten I had them.

The Hall of Fame class of 2000 consisted of three Reds ... Sparky Anderson, Tony Perez, and Marty Brennaman, plus Red Sox and White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk. Kroger released these coins to celebrate the induction of Brennaman, Perez, and Anderson and could be purchased at the customer service counter for about $8.99 each (I think). I had these hanging from a shelf in my grandparents basement for years and gathered them up after my grandfather passed away a few years ago and the house had to be sold.

These coins have been in their holders for the last 15 years since I got them in the summer of 2000. While they've got some wear on them, I think they're still in pretty good shape. It's not everyday that you randomly find collectible coins in a box of commons. I need to find someplace to display these.

Programs, Get Your Programs Here!

My wife and I were cleaning out our garage a a few weeks ago and buried inside a giant cardboard box were some old Reds programs, the majority of which I got when I went to Reds games as a kid, and later, as a teenager. I'm in the process of scanning in some of the contents of these magazines and will share them here in time. Some of them are very fragile (especially the 1976 and 1995 programs) so I'm having to be very cautious with those. In the meantime, here are scans of the covers of all the programs I found.

1976 NLCS Program
(This was given to me by a family member)

1995 Reds Yearbook/Progam

1997 Reds Yearbook

1998 Reds Magazine Issue 1

1998 Reds Magazine Issue 2

1999 Reds Magazine Issue 1

1999 Reds Magazine Issue 3

2000 Reds Magazine

2002 Reds Yearbook

As I mentioned, I'm scanning in some of the contents of each of these but it's a very time consuming process. I'm not scanning the whole magazine, as that would take forever, just the interesting parts of each one. I think somewhere I have the ticket stubs and some scorecards from the games where I got these. If I can find them, I'll post them up when I do the scans as well.

Hope you enjoy these when I get them posted up! I've got some other ideas I'm working on as well while I work on my next card post.