Longtime Reds’ season ticket holder shares decades of memories.
CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A longtime Cincinnati Reds fan has years of memories and stories that he continues to share with those seated close to him.
Mike Miller is a decades-long Reds’ season ticket holder. He has become synonymous with the tales he shares from his seat at Great American Ball Park for the past 25 years.
Whether it is Miller sharing stories from his college days or a Reds World Series team, there are many memories this die-hard fan can talk about.
“I would probably go back to when I was in college and the Reds won the World Series,” Miller recalls. “We talked a bunch of Reds fans into jumping into a back of a pickup truck on a very cold evening and drove from Centre College all the way up here and ran around and partied on the Square and just enjoyed it immensely.”
Miller’s memories of the Reds preceded his college years.
It was a moment from when he played Little League that he still remembers as the Reds begin their 2024 season.
“My dad knew Joe Nuxhall’s brother and [he] ran around with him a little bit,” Miller explains. “Joe actually pumped gas in their car when they didn’t have any money and Joe had to work in a gas station to make his way because they did not get paid a lot back then. So, we ended up down at the Crosley Field, our whole Little League team, and they put on a little clinic for us with Pete Rose and Joe Nuxhall, and it was phenomenal.”
Decades later, those stories are shared with fans sitting around him inside Great American Ball Park.
The 2024 Reds team, Johnathan India, particularly has the characteristics that Miller says a winning team needs to encompass.
“It’s a nice thing to have Johnathan India in the background, who can fill many of those positions. Great utility guy,” Miller says of India. “He’s got a great attitude with the sport where it is. It’s hard with the love of the game. Sometimes you put your heart and soul in and these players, all of a sudden, there’s a trade or talk of that, so it’s difficult on the players for them to keep their head in the game. He seems to have stayed right in it so I’m hoping that he can help rally and keep on winning, and I think they will.”
With Miller watching on from the seat he’s called his ballpark home for 25 years, the Reds won 8-2 on Opening Day.
