Cincinnatti Reds



Based in Cincinnati, Ohio is a Major League Baseball team called Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati Reds are members of the Central Division of the National League. They have enjoyed sporadic success over their 125-plus years. The Club has won the AA's inaugural season in 1882, and did not win another championship until 1919. Their made their last World Series championship in 1990. Since 2003, the Red have played their home games in Great American Ball Park.

The franchise of Cincinnati Reds originated in 1882 as a charter member of the now-defunct American Association. Reds joined the National League in 1890 after spending its first eight years in the Association. Inspired by a previous, unrelated club called the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the named their franchise ‘Reds'. The Cincinnati Red Stockings was recognized as the first openly professional baseball team, founded as an amateur club in 1863. They became fully professional in 1869 and won 130 straight games throughout 1869 and 1870, before being defeated by the Brooklyn Atlantics.

The 1869 Red Stockings went undefeated for making an eastern swing of 21 games. According to Walter Camp, the Club received a banquet and a champion bat that was twenty-seven feet long and nine inches in diameter. The next year, the team lost only one game 8-7 in 11 innings and was defeated at the Brooklyn Atlantics' Capitoline Grounds. The best players of the team relocated to Boston after the 1870 season, earning it a new name ‘Boston Red Stockings'.

Boston Red Stockings later dubbed the ‘Beaneaters' and eventually the ‘Braves'. A new Cincinnati baseball team became a charter member of the National League in 1876 but was expelled from the league after the 1880 season, in part for violating league rules. Following the expulsion, a third Cincinnati team of the same name became a founding member of the American Association. That team, which is the same franchise of today, played for eight seasons in the American Association. It had won the Association's inaugural pennant in 1882 and still holds the record for the highest winning percentage of any Reds club to date.

In November of 1889, the Cincinnati Red Stockings left the Association for the National League and dropped ‘Stockings' from their name. The team first shortened their nickname to ‘Reds', which was also wandered through the 1890s signing local stars & aging veterans. In 1912, the Reds opened a new steel-and-concrete ballpark, Crosley Field where the Club has been playing for 28 years. By the late 1910s the Reds managed to come out of the second division. The team had hitting stars led by Edd Roush and Heinie Groh while the pitching staff was led by Hod Eller and Harry.

The Reds finished won the world championship in 8 games over the Chicago White Sox. MacPhail began to develop the Reds' minor league system and expanded their base. The Franchise, throughout the 1930s, became a team of ‘firsts'. Crosley Field became the host of the first night game in 1935. Other position players included Harry Craft, Lonny Frey, Ival Goodman and Lew Riggs and by 1939 they were National League champions.

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