Some Reds history.
PLAYED AS,
Cincinnati Reds (8805-8698 W-L, 1890 - 1953,1960 - 2009) - 5 World Championships, 9 Pennants, and 12 Playoff Appearances
Cincinnati Redlegs (470-454 W-L, 1954 - 1959)
Cincinnati Red Stockings (549-396 W-L, 1882 - 1889) - 1 Pennant and 0 Playoff Appearance
Overall (9824-9548 W-L, 1882 - 2009) - 5 World Championships, 10 Pennants, and 12 Playoff Appearances
Best Record,
1975, 108-54
Worst Record,
1982, 61-101
In 2005 they hit 222 home runs surpassing the old team record of 221 set in 1956.
The career win total for pitching is help by Eppa Rixey with 179. He pitched
2890.7 innings
Johnny Bench hit 389 home Runs as a Red.
Pete Rose is baseballs all time hit leader with, Pete got 3,358 as a Red.
Barry Larkin is Second on the Team list with 2,340
Pete Rose Leads the Reds in games played at 2,721
Ballparks
1882-1883, Bank Street Grounds
1884-1901, League Park II in Cincinnati
1902-1911, Palace of the Fans
1912-1969, Crosley Field
1970-1970, Crosley Field/Riverfront Stadium
1971-1996, Riverfront Stadium
1997-2002, Cinergy Field ( Riverfront stadium name was changed from Riverfront Stadium to Cinergy Field)
2003-present, Great American Ballpark
1976 The Reds had there highest single season attendance drawing 2.629.708 fans.
There first Worls Series win was 1919 and there last World Series win was 1990.
The Reds are the only team to lead wire to wire and win a world series (1990)
The Reds are 4th all time in games played, 19,511
6th in all time wins, 9,824
8th in win%, .507
The Reds have 33 HOF, that puts them 10th on the all time list.
Since 1952 Davey Cocepion and Barry Larkin have combined for 32 opening day starts at Short Stop. Larkin 17, Concepion 15
Barry Larkin leads all opening day starts for the Reds with 17.
Mario Soto leads all Reds pitchers with 6 opening day starts
Jose Rijo is tied for 2nd with Aaron Harang with 4 starts.
If you ranked the players by opening day starts the most common line up would look like this.
C-Johny Bench (12)
1st-Dan Driessen (8)
2nd-Joe Morgan (8)
3rd-Chris Sabo (7)
SS-Barry Larkin (17)
LF-Adam Dunn (7)
CF-Vada Pinson (8)
RF-Ken Griffey Sr. (7)
P-Mario Soto (6)
Ken Griffey jr. had 7 opening day starts for the Reds. 5 in CF and 2 in RF
3/29 UPDATE
Games played by position (top 5)
C-Bench 1742, Ernie Lombardi 1053, Ivey Wingo 955,Joe Oliver 738,Johnny Edwards 731,
1st-Ted Kluszuski 1255, Frank McCormick1206, Don Driessen 1156, Yony Perez 1092, Sean Casey (The Mayor)1030
2nd-Bid McPhee2129, Ron Oester 1171, Joe Morgan 1116,Johnny Temple 948, Lonny Frey 889
3rd-Hick Carpenter 890,Heinie Groh 883, Chris Sabo 792, tony Perez 760, Grady Hatton 729.
SS-Davey Concepion 2178, Barry Larkin 2085, Roy McMillan 1302,Tommy Corcoran 1164, Leo Cardenas 1138
LF-Dunn 941, George Foster 883, Bob Bescher 731,Pat Duncan 687, Frank Robinson 684.
CF-Vada Pinson 1496,Edd Roush 1317, Cesar Geronimo 1030,Gus Bell 810, Eric Davis 770
RF-Ival Goodman 892,Ken Griffey Sr. 876,Mike mitchell 813, Curt Walker 804,Paul O'Neill 685.
3/30 update
Danny Graves is the career saves leader with 182
Jeff Brantley is the single season saves leader with 44
Jim Maloney is the career strike out leader with 1592
Mario Soto is the single season strike out leader with 274
I came across this a little while ago online and thought it would be neat to add.
These are the total stats for the last 139 years of professional baseball including the following leagues.
MLB(includes both american and National Leagues
National Association
Union Association
Players League
American Association
Federal League
Years: 139
Games: 392,594
Runs: 1,789,256
At Bats: 13,432,152
Hits: 3,523,957
Home Runs: 255,826
Doubles: 588,691
Triples: 126,868
Stolen Bases: 282,501 Innings: 3,501,020
Strikeouts: 1,835,721
Walks: 1,241,488
Hit Batsmen: 94,555
Saves: 58,865
Errors: 507,684
Double Plays: 347,934
Players: 17,292
Managers: 663
I will slowly add more and more as I get it. I have so much of this stuff laying around.
