Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The current franchise started play as the Cincinnati Red Stockings, playing exhibition games in 1881 and then, in 1882, becoming a charter member of the American Association. (The A.A. was a 19th-century major baseball league.) The team has been based in Cincinnati for its entire history. [1] [2] [3]
Sources tie the "ancestry" of the current franchise to 1869 with the creation of the first-ever professional baseball team, also called the Cincinnati Red Stockings but considered to be a separate franchise. In 1876, as the Cincinnati Reds, this franchise became a charter member of the National League, where they played through the 1879 season. [4] In 1880, another Cincinnati team, the Stars, played a single season in the National League. [5]
Championships
The team has had a total of 5 championship-winning seasons since the beginning of major-league baseball's modern World Series in 1903, winning the World Series in the following years. [6]
- 1990
- 1976
- 1975
- 1940
- 1919
They were also National League champions, but lost in the World Series, 4 times, in the following years.
- 1972
- 1970
- 1961
- 1939
Prior to the start of the modern World Series, the team did not win any National League titles. They won one American Association title, in 1882. [7] This occurred prior to the start of the 19th-century version of the World Series in which the National League and American Association pennant-winners played each other. [8]
Retired Numbers
The following uniform numbers are retired in that players, managers, and coaches of the team will no longer use them. For non-players, the person's role in the organization is also listed. [9] [10]
- (No number) Marty Brennaman (broadcaster)
- (No number) Waite Hoyt (broadcaster)
- (No number) Joe Nuxhall (broadcaster)
- 1 Fred Hutchinson (manager)
- 5 Johnny Bench
- 8 Joe Morgan
- 10 Sparky Anderson (manager)
- 11 Barry Larkin
- 13 Dave Concepcion
- 14 Pete Rose
- 18 Ted Kluszewski
- 20 Frank Robinson
- 24 Tony Perez
- 42 Jackie Robinson (retired across major league baseball)
Notes
- ↑ https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/reds.shtml
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/
- ↑ https://www.mlb.com/reds/history/timeline
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CNR/
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CNS/index.shtml
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/#all_franchise_years
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml#all_world_series_winners_aa_nl
- ↑ https://www.mlb.com/reds/history/records-stats-awards/retired-numbers
- ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/#all_teams_retired_unis_CIN