THE LOCAL BOYS
Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds
Copyright © 2014 by Joe Heffron and Jack Heffron
All rights reserved
Published by Clerisy Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, first printing
Editor: Tim W. Jackson
Cover and text design: Stephen Sullivan
Quotes from interviews with Greg Rhodes and Lonnie Wheeler appeared originally in “Return of the Natives,” in Cincinnati magazine. Quotes from interview with Jim Brosnan appeared originally in “Go West, Young Fan,” in Cincinnati magazine.
Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-1-57860-553-8
eISBN 978-1-57860-554-5
CLERISY PRESS
An imprint of Keen Communications, LLC
P.O. Box 43673
Birmingham, AL 35243
For Walt and Mary Heffron, who taught us to love the Reds,
and for Bob Heffron, who loved them with us.
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