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Article: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati This ever-changing river city overflows with major-league fun.(Going Places)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- April 25, 2004
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Byline: Randy Mink Daily Herald Correspondent
Our seats high above left field commanded an Ohio River panorama, 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 paddle wheeler, the 1,000- passenger Belle of Cincinnati, glided by. Docked at the levee was the River Explorer, a mammoth hotel barge our family had taken a few years ago.
The mission last summer, with my baseball-crazy son, Jeremy, was to see the stadium in its ...