The Cincinnati Reds are 76-82. They are ranked foutrh in their division. They haven't had a winning season in what it feels like forever. The last time the Reds went to the playoffs was in 1995. Although, we did manage to win five world series. The dates we've won are 1919,1940,1975,1976, and 1990.
We haven't done good since. The Cincinnati Reds have had some great players through out the years. Some of them are Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Ken Griffey Jr, Frank Robinson, and Johnny Bench. Too bad they couldn't have winning seasons or a world series trophy sitting on their mantles at home.
More than most sports, baseball thrives on tradition. Nowhere does baseball tradition run more deeply or more passionately than it does in Cincinnati. The Queen City gave birth to the first openly professional baseball team four years after the Civil War, and the town has been represented by a team every year since 1881.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings became baseball's first professional team in 1869. They began with a 45-9 thumping of a team called the Great Western of Cincinnati, then proceeded to win nearly every one of its more than seventy games against overmatched amateur teams in the Midwest. They finally lost a game in 1870, when the Brooklyn Atlantics bested them 8-7 in extra innings.
It was a 19th Century no-brainer that the Red Stockings would be a charter member of the National League in 1876. However, Cincinnati's start in the League was rocky to say the least.
The Red Stockings didn't fare as well as their 1869 predecessors, finishing 9-54. After four seasons, Cincinnati was kicked out of the National League for playing baseball games on Sunday and for selling beer during games. Both were National League no-no's at the time.
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