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The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The current franchise started play as the Cincinnati Red Stockings, playing exhibition games in 1881 and then, in 1882, becoming a charter member of the American Association. (The A.A. was a 19th-century major baseball league.) The team has been based in Cincinnati for its entire history. [1] [2] [3]

Sources tie the "ancestry" of the current franchise to 1869 with the creation of the first-ever professional baseball team, also called the Cincinnati Red Stockings but considered to be a separate franchise. In 1876, as the Cincinnati Reds, this franchise became a charter member of the National League, where they played through the 1879 season. [4] In 1880, another Cincinnati team, the Stars, played a single season in the National League. [5]

## Championships[edit]

The team has had a total of 5 championship-winning seasons since the beginning of major-league baseball's modern World Series in 1903, winning the World Series in the following years. [6]

* 1990
* 1976
* 1975
* 1940
* 1919

They were also National League champions, but lost in the World Series, 4 times, in the following years.

* 1972
* 1970
* 1961
* 1939

Prior to the start of the modern World Series, the team did not win any National League titles. They won one American Association title, in 1882. [7] This occurred prior to the start of the 19th-century version of the World Series in which the National League and American Association pennant-winners played each other. [8]

## Retired Numbers[edit]

The following uniform numbers are retired in that players, managers, and coaches of the team will no longer use them. For non-players, the person's role in the organization is also listed. [9] [10]

* (No number) Marty Brennaman (broadcaster)
* (No number) Waite Hoyt (broadcaster)
* (No number) Joe Nuxhall (broadcaster)
* 1 Fred Hutchinson (manager)
* 5 Johnny Bench
* 8 Joe Morgan
* 10 Sparky Anderson (manager)
* 11 Barry Larkin
* 13 Dave Concepcion
* 14 Pete Rose
* 18 Ted Kluszewski
* 20 Frank Robinson
* 24 Tony Perez
* 42 Jackie Robinson (retired across major league baseball)

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/reds.shtml
2. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/
3. ↑ https://www.mlb.com/reds/history/timeline
4. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CNR/
5. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CNS/index.shtml
6. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml
7. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/#all_franchise_years
8. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml#all_world_series_winners_aa_nl
9. ↑ https://www.mlb.com/reds/history/records-stats-awards/retired-numbers
10. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/#all_teams_retired_unis_CIN