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The original Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first openly all-professional team in 1869. The Red Stockings were formed as an amateur ball club in 1863. There have been three incarnations of the Red Stockings, the original team, another team as a charter member of the National League in 1872, and a third formed in 1882 who are now the Cincinnati Reds. The Red Stockings started play as the Reds in 1890 when they left the American Association to join the National League.

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