History Of The Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team. Originally named the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the name was shortened to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1890s.
Read more about History Of The Cincinnati Reds: 1869-1896: The Original "Red Stockings" and The Pre-NL Days, 1890–1911: in The National League For Good, 1912-32: Redland Field To The Great Depression, 1933-40: Revival of 1930s, 1941-69: Kluszewski, Robinson, and The Beginnings of A Machine, How To Groom The Big Red Machine, 2003–present Day: The Great American Ball Park Opens
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““And now this is the way in which the history of your former life has reached my ears!” As he said this he held out in his hand the fatal letter.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Holly Golightly: You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds? You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)