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It was originally the Red Stockings, then the Reds, and, briefly, called the Red Legs in the 1950s (to escape the association with Communists, called Reds), then back to Reds again and remains the "Reds" today.
When Ken Griffey Jr. was playing with the reds he had 24 in Seattle and he had 30 in Cincinnati for his dad. He then changed it to 3 for his three kids. When he went to Chicago he was 27 and back in Seattle he rests again with 24.
The Cincinnati Reds play the first game of every season in Cincinnati. This is because the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team in baseball history back in the 1870's, and have traditionally received the right to play the season opener at home ever since.
He wore #30 in Cincinnati from 1973 to 1981. He then went on to play for the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves, but returned to play for the Reds in 1988 and wore #25. He went back to #30 for the 1989 and 1990 season before he finished his career with the Mariners.
Paul Blair played for the Yankees from 1977 to the beginning of the 1979 season. He was released and picked up by the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds released him at the end of that season. He wound up back with the Yankees in 1980 but played only 12 games, mainly as a defensive replacement, before he was again released. Between 1977-1979 his number was 2. In 1980, his number was 27. Bobby Murcer wore the number 2 in 1980.
back in 1970s.
Way back on September 11, 1882 a pitcher named Tony Mullane of the American Association Major League's Louisville Eclipse pitched a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds, then called the Red-Stockings. The Eclipse won the game 2-0.
The Cincinnati Reds won game 7 in 1975 and have swept the Yankees the following year and then the A's in1990. They haven't been back
The afro was not invented by anyone it was a stlye back then in the 1970s.
Jim Thorpe played for the New York Giants in 1913 and 1914, the Cincinnati Reds in 1915, back to the Giants in 1917 to 1919 and finished his Major League career in 1919 with the Boston Braves.
The National League began in 1876 and the American League started in 1901. The Cincinnati Reds were the first professional team founded in 1869 and were known as the Red Stockings back then.