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Has anyone ever really written a definitive history of the Cincinnati Reds? Redleg Journal is awesome, but it’s not really a definitive club history.
With all the tradition surrounding this club, we need a great book detailing the history of this storied franchise.
Was reading this and came to Gary Nolan’s season in ‘72 . He was 24, was 15-5, 1.99 ERA (lg. avg 3.21), ERA+ of 161.
Wow, I thought, that’s pretty great. Looked it up, not even top 10 in Reds history for ERA +.
Amazing. Seaver and Rijo both had better seasons. (Though I’d bet not at 24, but I didn’t look how old Rijo was.)
It was back in ‘93. Rijo was 28.
And while Seaver did it, those stats are only his Reds stats for that year. That was his trade year.
Just wondering – is there any family relationship between former Red radio man Dick Bray (1937-1943) and Reds newbie Bill Bray?
Just wondering…
I agree … a couple weeks ago, I tried to find a book about Croley Field. All I found was a photo book, which is good, but I want HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’ve got books on the Cubs, Red Sox, Yanks … WHY NOT THE REDS?!?!?! They are, after all, the oldest professional baseball club in HISTORY.
Plus, look at the Reds’ World Series wins – all against five of the most historical AL organizations – White Sox, Tigers, Red Sox, Yankees and A’s.
A book, or should I say books, must be written on the history of the Reds.
Besides the Images of Baseball series books, there is the Ritter Collett book from 1976, but at less than 200 pages it is certainly not exhaustive. There is Redleg Journal, the hard-to-get timeline book. There is the Reds entry from the 1940s era series of books that were written about all the then-extant franchises. And there are the books about the various versions of the team, particularly the Big Red Machine.
But there is so far as I know no recent definitive history of the team. I’d love to write it, but am stopped by the twin problems of finding the time and a publisher.
Lee Allen’s book The Cincinnati Reds” covers the team up to the late 40’s.
It was just re-released too.
It’s a great source.
FYI Jim Farmer (Site Author) works at the Reds HOF, I met him there last summer.
They are, after all, the oldest professional baseball club in HISTORY
Not really, they were the “First” full club of paid players, but they didn’t play during the NA days and got tossed from the Nl in the early years, both of those throw the title of oldest professional teams into the laps of the Cubs and The Braves.
Don’t start quoting facts to me, Brian!