Stadium Where History Was Made Is History

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.