Cincinnati Redbirds
From NABA
Cincinnati Redbirds | |
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Established in 1899 | |
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Cardinals, Cincies | |
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American Grand Finals championships (4) | 1927, 1931, 1947, 1951 |
Platinum pennants (0) | 1925, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1967 |
Golden pennants (1) | 1957, 2002, 2015 |
Silver pennants (1) | 2017 |
Bronze pennants (0) | None |
The Cincinnati Redbirds are an American professional baseball franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are in the North American Baseball Association's American League, and were originally founded as the Richmond Rebels, a location they held for over 40 years until the Richmond public partook in the Richmond Baseball Boycotts in an attempt to speak against the controversial Richmond general manager Sylvester Dilahunty, who sold star players due to their expenses. As an answer to the boycott, Dilahunty was quick to move the team rather than change his ways, to the hungry town of Cincinnati, that had been lobbying for a team for years. The team would win 2 of its 4 championships in Cincinnati, though haven't since 1951, and had endured a long playoff drought from 1967 to 2002. The Redbirds have played at Trade Field since 1944, one of the longest homestandings for a team in the league.