Stadium Where History Was Made Is History
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It took 37 seconds to bring down old Riverfront Stadium, a prominent feature of Cincinnati’s skyline for 32 years and the ballpark that was home to Pete Rose’s Big Red Machine and Hank Aaron’s 714th home run.
With the push of a button, 1,275 pounds of explosives went off in a counterclockwise pattern of blasts around what has been renamed Cinergy Field, collapsing the arena inward onto its former playing surface.
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