Show 1 i CINCY CINCY WINNER OF b TWO TO FLAGS BEFORE 19 BUT DUT ONLY ONE a i IN MAJOR LEAGUE j l Victory in 1869 Was in League Considered Predecessor Pre Pre- I 4 g M of National in in ini i 1882 American M By W. W D. D B. B may justly lay claim x N to being the birthplace of organized organized or or- and 4 6 professional or orr I r J salary paid baseN baseI base base- I N ball During the c past fifty years J Cincinnati has has' had two vo championship chara- chara teams 1 M The Reds of 1869 started that i i city off on the high tide of early baseball enthusiasm by their magnificent magnificent mag- mag t work which was continued con- con tinned with ith a great measure of r success into the season of 1870 i In 1882 the Cincinnati team won w the pennant penant in the old American 4 J association 1 i Those baseball men who insist I I II that Cincinnati has not won a aJ abig 1 J big league flag since fifty y years ars arsU U ago no doubt do not consider ago b E 1 the the then American association as asI IJ I I having been in tl the e big league a class J t While the present National league l L was not formed until 1876 it was organized orr or- or r to take the place of the ase association as e or National Association of Baseball Players which was considered the big league In its time It was wasI I In this association in which Cincinnati r t won on Its only other big league honor In 1869 according to the opinion of the older critics In the year 1882 when Cincinnati won an an n American association pennant Jt it was not a a. member of the National league One baseball history which we have at hand quotes a veteran writer on that r 1881 1851 Cincinnati I subject as follows In withdrew from the Na National l mal league owing to the adoption of a new rule prohibiting prohibiting pro pro- the sale of liquor on league grounds Detroit took the place of Cin- Cin Regarding the 1869 team of the Professional Professional Pro Baseball association which took the place of the National Asso- Asso i c elation dation of Baseball Pla Players ers for tor a brief r. r period in n a another e authority y on t baseball says a In n 1869 the entire CIa Cin- Cin under salary team was I placed 1 rh- rh bein being thus the first undisguised professional pro- pro r. r team on record This team that that 1 year ear made a tour of the entire countr country country coun coun- tr try from New York to San Fra Francisco between May 10 and November 5 6 and went through the season without a defeat defeat defeat de de- deI I feat playing sixty-five sixty games of which they won all except a 17 tie game I with the Haymakers of Troy N N. Y This first professional team was made up as follows Harry Wright captain and manager manager manager man man- ager Asa Brainard pitcher Douglas Al Allison Allison Allison Al- Al lison catcher Charles Gould first base Charley second base Fred Waterman Wa Va j terman Lerman third base George Wright shortstop Andrew J. J Leonard left field Harry Hury Wright center field Calvin McVey Mc- Mc Vey right field Richard Hurley sub sub- The players were paid per month from March 15 to November 15 The team of 1852 which won the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican scan association flag had Louis Kremer as its president Louis Herancourt its treasurer and O. O P. P Caylor famous writer as its secretary Its chief backer was Aaron S. S Siren The player list In Included Included included In- In Dan Stearns Steams first base John A. A second base W. W W. W Carpenter Carpenter Carpenter Car Car- penter Old Hickory third base Charles I Fulmer shortstop Joe Sommer leftfield left leftfield leftfield 1 field John Macullar center field Harry Wheeler right field and Harry Luff I. I who played twenty-seven twenty games with the team as a first baseman 1 Beginning with 1884 Cincinnati had two league teams one in the Union association as as- lS- lS I O lation and the other still in the American Ameri Amerl- can call association I In 1893 and 1894 1594 the National league and American association battled for the baseball patronage of Cincinnati and at atthe atthe atthe the end the former the major league came into possession and it has clun duns clung to it ever since I |