Star players included brothers Harry and George Wright, Fred Waterman, and pitcher Asa Brainard.

The Red Stockings won 130 straight games throughout 18, before being defeated by the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn. It became baseball's first openly all-professional team when it became fully professional in 1869. The team became known as the Cincinnati Red Stockings due to its wearing knickers rather than the traditional trousers, with red knee socks- a costume condemned as 'immoral' by the more prudish. The Cincinnati Reds, a Major League Baseball team, were originally members of the American Association from 1882 to 1889 the team has played in the National League ever since, being one of only five 19th-century teams still playing in its original city.ġ866–1896: The original 'Red Stockings' and the pre-NL days The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings team photographĪn amateur team formed by lawyers that gradually added professionals was originally called the Resolute Base Ball Club of Cincinnati, but the name was soon changed to the Cincinnati Base Ball Club. JSTOR ( October 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).

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