- 1972 World Series Game 1

- Riverfront Stadium

- Saturday, October 14, 1972

- Attendance: 52,918

- Game Duration: 2h18m

- Day Game, on turf

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- Starting Lineups

- Oakland Athletics

- 1 - SS - Bert Campaneris

- 2 - LF - Joe Rudi

- 3 - RF - Matty Alou

- 4 - 1B - Mike Epstein

- 5 - 3B - Sal Bando

- 6 - CF - George Hendrick

- 7 - C - Gene Tenace

- 8 - 2B - Dick Green

- 9 - P - Ken Holtzman

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- Cincinnati Reds

- 1 - LF - Pete Rose

- 2 - 2B - Joe Morgan

- 3 - CF - Bobby Tolan

- 4 - C - Johnny Bench

- 5 - 1B - Tony Perez

- 6 - 3B - Denis Menke

- 7 - RF - Cesar Geronimo

- 8 - SS - Dave Concepcion

- 9 - P - Gary Nolan

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- Radio Announcers

- Jim Simpson

- Monte Moore