Bibliographic record
Abstract
Doug Feldman. The 1976 Cincinnati Reds: Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 266 pp. Paper, $35.00. Daryl Smith. Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970$. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.349 pp. Paper, $35.00. In 1919, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series in the infamous Black Sox scandal. The Reds would appear again in the World Series in 1939, only to lose to the New York Yankees, and in 1940 the Reds won the World Series against the Detroit Tigers. In the 1961 World Series, the Reds lost to the Yankees. During the 1990 baseball campaign, the Reds went wire to wire and swept the Oakland A's in the fall classic. However, it was in the 1970s that the Cincinnati Reds established a dynasty. The Reds participated in four World Series during the decade, winning in 1975 and 1976. Two accounts, The 1976 Cincinnati Reds, by Doug Feldmann, and Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 19705, by Daryl Smith, provide insight into the Cincinnati Reds' dominance during the 197os. On January 22, 1967, the Cincinnati Reds announced that Bob Howsam was hired as the team's general manager. During Howsam's tenure, the Cincinnati Reds emerged as a successful enterprise. Smith acknowledges that his biographical treatment of Howsam first and foremost intended to be a baseball story. It is also full of leadership principles (3). Howsam's experience with professional sport began in his native Colorado when at the age of thirty he purchased the Denver Bears for seventy-five thousand dollars in 1947. In 1950, the Denver Bears became an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. During this period, Howsam became associated with Branch Rickey, who came to the Pirates in 1950 after leaving the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey took Howsam under his wing and became Howsam's mentor. In 1959, Howsam and Rickey joined reform-minded baseball owners to form the Continental League. The new league was intended to provide professional baseball in new markets such as Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, and Dallas, but the Continental League folded. Howsam moved on to establish professional football in Denver as the American Football League got underway for the 1960 season, while Rickey was hired as a senior consultant by Cardinals owner August Busch Jr. in 1962. In May1964, Busch fired Bing Devine as the general manager of the Cardinals, and Howsam was hired to replace him. Howsam had positioned himself to implement the organizational leadership skills that he learned from his mentor, Branch Rickey. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".