Cincinnati Red Stockings: Baseball's First Professional Team

Rare Poster

Extremely rare 1868 Red Stockings program for a game played on August 26.

Source: Cincy Sports

Photograph from 1868 of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. 
Source: Lelands.com

 

First Nine of the Cincinnati [Red Stockings] Base Ball Club, 1869.

Source: American Memory

 
SPORTING ADVERTISEMENTS
Wanted.
A FIRST-CLASS B. B. PITCHER
The Forest City B. B. Club of Cleveland, Ohio, wish to receive communications from FIRST-CLASS PITCHERS, in reference to securing the services of such for the present season. A man of steady habits, and who would like to make Cleveland a permanent
residence, preferred.State terms and address,

J. J. READ, Secretary
292 Superior street, Cleveland, Ohio

New York Clipper   May 1, 1869

 


1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings

Standing from left to right is Cal McVey, Charels Gould, Harry Wright, George Wright & Fred Waterman.
Sitting from left to right is Andy Leonard, Doug Allison, Asa Brainard & Charley Sweasy.
Source: Cincy Sports

 

Base-Ball -- The Match Between the "Red Stockings" and the "Atlantics." Harper's Weekly, July 2, 1870.

Source: Doc Lawson's 19th Century Base Ball Prints
 

"The Red Stockings," Polka Sheet Music, 1869

Source: American Memory