Here Comes Kelly's "killers"
The Association was crushed when the Reds left the league for a second time but maintained that Cincinnati was an Association city. The league placed a new franchise in the Queen City to fill the void that the Reds were to occupy. The new Association club would be owned by Chris von der Ahe, who also owned the St. Louis Browns. His new Cincinnati club would be captained by super star player Mike Kelly, whose major league career began in Cincinnati with the original National League Reds club of the 1870s.
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“we want to remember when you were
money in Massachusetts and yet were wild and rude
and killers. We want our killers dressed in black
like grease for we are sick of writing checks,
putting on our socks and working in the little boxes
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)