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The Cincy Shirts Podcast Episode 210: Delhi and Early 20th Century Baseball

Joey Witterstaetter is an armchair historian from Delhi and a massive baseball fan. He talks to us about his hometown. Indeed, his family’s roots in the community go back to the early 1800s. He als...

CINCINNATI REDS HISTORY: THE '80s

Not long after their triumph of winning back-to-back World Series titles, the sun began to set on the Big Red Machine era of the Cincinnati Reds. The first blow came with the departure of Tony Pere...

Cincinnati Reds History: The Powel Crosley Era

After floundering on the field through the late 1920s, the Reds fell into bankruptcy in 1931 before being bought by Powel Crosley, owner of a powerful radio station as well as a manufacturer of rad...

Cincinnati Reds History: The Redland Field Years

The Cincinnati Reds of the early 1900s were nowhere near as dominant as the first professional team from 1869. The turn-of-the-century era Reds oscillated between third and sixth place. However, de...

The Early History of the Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are, of course, America’s oldest professional baseball team. While baseball was being played as far back as the late 1850s, it was the Cincinnati Red Stockings, founded in 1866,...