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CINCINNATI RED
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CINCINNATI REDS II
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During the summer of 1875, when the second
Cincinnati Reds club was being formed, the
team had no home ballpark. The Reds chose to
play their home games at the Ludlow Avenue Base
Ball Grounds in Ludlow Kentucky while their
ballpark, Avenue Grounds, was being built. The
Ludlow Grounds was home to the professional
Ludlow Base Ball Club. |
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Reds star Charley Jones played for the Ludlow
Base Ball Club before he joined Cincinnati in
1876. Jones umpired the first game played by the
second Reds club on August 9th 1875. The game
was played on the Lud's baseball grounds. |
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| • On May 2nd 1876 at Cincinnati's Avenue
Grounds, White Stockings second baseman Ross
Barnes hit the first home run in National League
history. Reds pitcher Cherokee Fisher served it
up. |
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| • On September 6th 1877, the Reds Bobby Mitchell
becomes the first left handed major league
pitcher to start a game. |
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| • The Cincinnati Reds nearly won the pennant
during the 1878 season. The Reds finished four
games behind Boston for the league championship. |
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| • Three players from the original Cincinnati Red
Stockings returned to play for the first
National League Reds club. Charlie Sweasy,
Charlie Gould and Cal McVey. |
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| • Reds pitcher Will White was the first major
leaguer to wear glasses. |
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| • On May 1st 1880, the Cincinnati Reds took on
the Chicago White Stockings in what would become
the first major league game that was decided in
"sudden death". Prior to 1880 an inning had to
be completed even after the winning run was
scored. The winning run in this game was a
walk-off home run by former Red Mike Kelly. |
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CINCINNATI REDS III
(1881-1900) |
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• Bug Holliday made his major league debut for
Cap Anson's Chicago White Stockings in Game 4 of
the 1885 World Series, going 0-4. Holliday was
the only player to make his major league debut
during the post season until Oakland Athletics'
Mark Kiger did it during the 2006 American
League Championship Series. Holliday was a 17
years old amateur and is the only amateur to
ever play in a World Series game.
Since the World Series matches during the 19th
century were considered exhibition games, Bug
Holliday's stats for his appearance do not turn
up in any major league baseball resource |
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• In 1882 Bill Tierny played in only one game
with the Reds. That game being Opening Day.
Tierny is currently the only player in Reds
history to start on Opening Day and never make
another appearance with the club. |
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• During the 1883 season a four year old girl
was seen regularly playing among the carriages
in the left field of Bank Street Grounds. She
became a favorite amongst the players because
the club seemed to always win when she was seen
present |
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• Charley Jones was blacklisted
during the 1881 and 1882 seasons because of a
salary dispute with Boston. During his time off
time he ran a laundry in Cincinnati. |
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• Reds pitcher Will White was the first major
leaguer to wear glasses. |
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• John Reilly grew up in Cincinnati's East End
and was an accomplished cartoonist and
caricaturist. He often lent his talents to
Cincinnati papers and the Reds official score
cards. |
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• John Reilly hit for the cycle three times in a
Reds uniform and currently holds the record for
performing the task the most. Two of his cycles
were hit within eight days of each other. The
first was on September 12 1883. While the second
was on September 19 1883. |
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• The Reds defeated the Baltimore Orioles by a
score of 23-0 on July 6th 1883. The final tally
is the highest scoring shutout in franchise
history. |
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• On May 1st 1884, the Reds opened up their new
ballpark on Western and Findlay to a crowd of
3,200. Following the conclusion of the game, a
platform leading from the seats to the entrance
gate collapsed. This caused about fifty people
to fall to the ground. Fortunately for the Reds,
only one person was seriously injured. |
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• Reds third baseman Arlie Latham's voice was
recorded by a Cincinnati merchant in 1890 to
sell in his shop. They used an early phonograph
and it believed to be the first time a major
league player was recorded. |
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• During the game played on September 12th 1883,
Hick Carpenter and John Reilly both had six hits
in one game. This is the only time in major
league history that two players from the same
team during the same game had six hits. |
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• Chick Fulmer, who was the Reds shortstop from
1882 to 1884 , served in the Civil War for the
Union as a 14 year old drummer boy. |
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• Nineteen century Reds second baseman Bid
McPhee is one of two players in the Baseball
Hall of Fame that spent his entire career with
the Reds. Johnny Bench is the other. |
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• Arlie Latham, Reds third baseman for six
seasons, went on to become an umpire in the
short-lived United States league in 1912.
Cincinnati's entry in the league was called the
Pippins. |
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• During the 1883 season, the Reds mascot was a
yaller dog that belonged to the Bank Street
Grounds groundkeeper. However, the man traded
his dog for a potato during June. The Reds, now
minus a mascot, adopted a fox to replace the
dog. |
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• Reds pitcher Will White opened a drug store in
1883 that was located on the corner of Broadway
and Fourth Street. |
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• On October 10th 1883, just before an
exhibition game in Dayton, eight Reds players
were involved in an elevator accident at the
Beckel House. Dressed in their baseball uniforms
and heading to the ballyard White, Reilly,
McPhee, Fulmer, Sommer, Jones, Carpenter and
Corkhill all jammed into an elevator on the
third floor. The elevator couldn't handle the
weight and went crashing down to the cellar
floor. Luckily for the men, only Carpenter
suffered an injury when he was cut in the left
index finger by some broken glass. Despite the
accident, the Reds went out and crushed the
Dayton nine by a score of 15-0. |
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• Arlie Latham, Reds third baseman from 1890 to
1895, moved to England after his baseball career
was over. He became friends with King George V
and was appointed the country's Administrator of
Baseball. However the game never caught on in
England. |
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• During the 1886 season, the Reds flew their
league champion pennant from the 1882 season for
good luck. It didn't work. The club went on to
post a 65-75 record. Their only losing season
during their stint in the American Association. |
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• East Ender Buck Ewing managed the Reds
from 1895 to 1899 and in that time he managed
Cincinnati to five straight winning seasons. He,
along with Sparky Anderson, are the only two
skippers in Reds history to do it in five or
more seasons. Sparky did it
from 1972 to 1978. |
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• On July 12th 1900 Reds pitching Ace Noodles
Hahn throws the first no-hitter in the 20th
Century. |
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