Episode 24: Episode 24: Rich Linville

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Linville who each night writes the Scoreboard Stumper question during Cincinnati Reds games at Great American Ballpark.
Rich grew up a Reds fan on the Eastside of Cincinnati during the 1970s. He attributes his deep love for the Reds from the radio calls each night by the legendary team of Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall.
Interestingly enough his favorite baseball player was Kansas Royals third basemen and Hall of Famer George Brett.
As a child of he 70’s, Rich talks about collecting baseball cards, reading box scores in the newspaper and watching the national game of the week and “This Week in Baseball.”
Rich graduated from Anderson High School and later Northern Kentucky University. He interned in the sports department at WLWT Channel 5 in Cincinnati. This is where he was given the opportunities to join the Cincinnati Reds scoreboard production crew.
It was 1988 and the Reds has just installed a video board at Riverfront Stadium and initially relied heavily on employees from Channel 5 to help operate the board. As an intern, Rich started as a fill-in and after a couple of seasons was a full-time crew member starting with the 1990 season.
In 1991, he was given the full-time assignment of writing the Scoreboard Stumper question. This question was and still is a staple of the ballpark experience at both Riverfront Stadium (later known as Cinergy Field) and Great American. Rich has made this responsibly his own and spends time year-round developing questions for all 81 home dates.
We obviously talk about some of the details of how the questions are constructed. This veers off into a conversation about Rich’s appearance on a trivia show that aired on the MLB Network.
Rich also has had some great behind-the-scenes stories about his interactions with famous personalities that he comes across at the ballpark.
We finish up with some of the great moments in Reds history that Rich witnessed in person at his perch in the Scoreboard control room over the course of the last 33 seasons.
You can follow Rich on Twitter where he has current and classic Scoreboard Stumper questions its @ScoreboardRich (https://twitter.com/ScoreboardRich)
You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 (https://twitter.com/BradyLaber1) please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe
Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm (https://nobodysssafe.fireside.fm)
For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com (https://www.stoveleg.com) or send an email to [email protected]
Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com (https://www.bensound.com)

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Linville who each night writes the Scoreboard Stumper question during Cincinnati Reds games at Great American Ballpark.

Rich grew up a Reds fan on the Eastside of Cincinnati during the 1970s. He attributes his deep love for the Reds from the radio calls each night by the legendary team of Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall.

Interestingly enough his favorite baseball player was Kansas Royals third basemen and Hall of Famer George Brett.

As a child of he 70’s, Rich talks about collecting baseball cards, reading box scores in the newspaper and watching the national game of the week and “This Week in Baseball.”

Rich graduated from Anderson High School and later Northern Kentucky University. He interned in the sports department at WLWT Channel 5 in Cincinnati. This is where he was given the opportunities to join the Cincinnati Reds scoreboard production crew.

It was 1988 and the Reds has just installed a video board at Riverfront Stadium and initially relied heavily on employees from Channel 5 to help operate the board. As an intern, Rich started as a fill-in and after a couple of seasons was a full-time crew member starting with the 1990 season.

In 1991, he was given the full-time assignment of writing the Scoreboard Stumper question. This question was and still is a staple of the ballpark experience at both Riverfront Stadium (later known as Cinergy Field) and Great American. Rich has made this responsibly his own and spends time year-round developing questions for all 81 home dates.

We obviously talk about some of the details of how the questions are constructed. This veers off into a conversation about Rich’s appearance on a trivia show that aired on the MLB Network.

Rich also has had some great behind-the-scenes stories about his interactions with famous personalities that he comes across at the ballpark.

We finish up with some of the great moments in Reds history that Rich witnessed in person at his perch in the Scoreboard control room over the course of the last 33 seasons.

You can follow Rich on Twitter where he has current and classic Scoreboard Stumper questions its @ScoreboardRich

You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe

Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm

For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected]

Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com