With a little over 2 months left in the season the NL Central appears to be headed for a four team race. Here is your handy cheat sheet for the teams and their corresponding cities. You decide who has the advantage. Up next Cincinnati.
Part 1, Pittsburg(h)
Cincinnati Reds
- Original name was Red Stockings.
- I'd rather be the Alleghenys
- They kinda won the 1919 World Series.
- That other team might have might have tanked to make some money.
- Baseball's first professional team
- Won first game 45-9
- Went 57-0 in their first season
- Well they were the only pro team
- The competition stepped up in 1870 when they actually lost a game to the Brooklyn Atlantics
- Folded after the 1870 season because of financial difficulties
- See what can happen Yankees!!
- Re-formed in 1876 and joined the National League
- Kicked out of the National League in 1882 for selling beer during games and playing on Sundays
- Heathens!!
- Reinstated to the NL in 1890
- Bud Selig would have never allowed such nonsense
- Also changed their name from Red Stockings to Reds
- Commies!!
- Played the first ever night game on May 24, 1935 against the Phillies
- They are the spoiled first child of MLB
- Played the first televised game on August 26, 1939 against the Dodgers on NBC
- Joe Morgan provided color commentary, the real cause of World War II
- Joe Morgan is also a Communist, or so I've heard
- Joe Nuxhall joined the Reds in 1944 at age 15
- Shouldn't he have been fighting in the war??
- You know for the Red Army
- Don't let Stalin down
- Used to play in Riverfront Stadium
- Hank Aaron hit the first home run there
- First stadium to be covered entirely by Astroturf
- Great idea!!!
- Held Jevoha's Witnesses conventions in 1971, 1974, and 1978
- Fun!!!
- Held Promise Keepers meeting in 1997
- Looks like a God and bros club
- Former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney is the founder!!
- I thought Boulder was supposed to be liberal
- I've gotten too far off topic
Yep that's a river all right, clever name.
Way better than Alleghenys.
- Imploded in 2002
Wooooooo!!!!
- In addition to 1919, also won the World Series in 1940, 1975, 1976, and 1990
- That 1990 one featured a few cheaters as well
- Joey Votto is dating this chick
- Dental hygenist that splits time between Cincinnati and Florida??
- Marge Schott
- Where do I start??
- First woman to buy a Major League Team
- All downhill from here
- Racist
- Anti-semite
- Nazi
- Hitler was good, he just went a little too far
- again back to WWII
- Not a fan of the Japs
- Not a fan of earrings
- Not a fan of umpires dying on the field
- Long time giver to children's hospital
- Yeah let's end on that one
- Not located in Cleveland
- +1
- 1835 First bag of airmail lifted by a hot air balloon
- How practical!!
- 1902 First concrete skyscraper built in the U.S. The Ingalls Building
- Birthplace of Sons of Daniel Boone that later turned into the Boy Scouts of America
- 1952 First heart-lung machine makes open heart surgery possible. Developed at Children's Hospital Medical Center.
- Can't really make fun of that
- 1993 most livable city
- 7th most romantic city in the US
- Screw you Alexandria, VA!!
- Jerry Springer was once mayor
- How embarassing
- Don't pay hookers with a check!!
- Governor??
- Famous people from Cincinnati that didn't write a check to a hooker (that we know of)
- Speaker of the House John Boehner
- Boner
- John Gilligan
- Apparently a politician and former Governor not the guy on the island
- Sam Malone
- William Howard Taft
- He was like President or something, I don't remember his term
- Charles Keating
- Be proud of that one Cincy
- Ted Turner
- Tony Snow
- Bush cronie, ew
- Ray Combs
- Former Family Feud host, haven't heard much from him lately
- Carmen Electra
- What is she famous for??
- Doris Day
- 87 year old actress/singer
- Phyllis Diller
- 94 year old comedienne
- is there something in the water??
- Annie Oakley
- Do NOT mess with this chick
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Meet Annie Oakley....please
- Hal Sparks
- I don't watch VH1 anymore, is he still alive??
- Katt Williams
- Midget comedian
- Steven Spielberg
- Movie dude right??
- Nipsey Russell
- Dead "comedian"
- Adrian Belew
This guy??
- Rich Franklin
- bad ass
- Heather Mitts
Yeah her
- Brian Pillman
- Dead wrestler
- The whole cast of WKRP in Cincinnati
Next up St Louis
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