Article: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati: this ever-changing Ohio River city brims with major league fun.(City Of The Month)

OUR SEATS HIGH ABOVE LEFT FIELD commanded Ohio River panoramas, one of many fan-friendly features of Great American Ball Park, the new home of baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Glancing away from action on the field, we gazed out at mighty bridges, boat and barge traffic, and twinkling lights on the Kentucky shore. At one point a grandiose paddlewheeler, the 1,000-passenger Belle of Cincinnati, glided by.

Docked at the levee was the River Explorer, a mammoth hotel barge out family had taken a few years ago on a cruise from Cincinnati to St. Louis. The mission last summer, with my baseball-crazy son Jeremy, was to see the stadium in its inaugural-season glory, plus some ...

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