Think the Reggie teams would have beaten the Big Red Machine?

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The just-completed interleague series between the Yankees and Reds in Cincinnati probably had some people reflecting on the 1976 World Series, when the Bombers were swept out in four straight by the Big Red Machine of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench.

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McCarver favors the 1976 Reds team, which won six fewer games but had a more dominant post-season, while sports historian Richard Crepeau of the University of Central Florida says take your pick--he agrees that the "Big Red Machine" teams of the 1970s are a cut above the rest.

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