CINCINNATI — Great American Ball Park was quiet Saturday evening as the crowd stood to attention for the scoreboard message honoring the life and legacy of Davey Johnson.

The visiting dugout was represented by the Mets — the franchise Johnson revived as manager in the mid-80s, bringing them their first pennant in more than a decade and their most recent World Series championship in 1986.

In the home dugout, there were the Reds, the team Johnson transformed when he took the helm, eventually bringing them their first division title in five years.

But though there’s plenty of evidence of Johnson revitalizing, resuscitating, or transforming, there was a theme to the many tributes that filtered in when news broke that had died Friday at age 82 after a long illness: He often effected franchis

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