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This Day in Reds History: Robby is an Old 30* and Vida Blue becomes a Red*

12/09/2010

Asterisks (*) in this case indicate that neither item turned out to be true... December 9, 1965: Future Hall of Famer Frank Robinson was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for prospect outfielder Dick Simpson, a... Read More...

This Day in Reds History: Redlegs Deal Curt Flood

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12/05/2010

December 5, 1957: The Cincinnati Redlegs trade outfielders Curt Flood and Joe Taylor to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitchers Marty Kutyna, Willard Schmdt, and Ted Wieand. Frankly, it was a horrible deal for... Read More...

This Day in Reds History: Cookie Rojas Dealt to Phillies

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11/27/2010

November 27, 1962: On this day, the Reds deal prospect second baseman Cookie Rojas to the Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher Jim Owens. Rojas had been one of several Cuban players the Reds (or Redlegs) had bee... Read More...

This Day in Reds History: The Reds Make the First Trade of Reserved Clause Players

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11/15/2010

November 15, 1886: The Cincinnati Reds completed the first trade of "reserved" players in Major League history when they traded catcher Jack Boyle and $350 to the St. Louis Browns for outfielder Hugh Nicol. T... Read More...

This Day in Reds History: Pitching, Homers, and Comebacks

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09/20/2010

September 20, 1888: Cincinnati star pitcher, Tony Mullane, pitches complete games in both games of a doubleheader as the Red Stockings sweep the Philadelphia Athletics, 1-0 and 2-1, in Cincinnati. There were ... Read More...

Prospects or Suspects?

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03/04/2010

Prospects or suspects? Desperate move or marketing ploy? Trade bait or the future? Baseball fans have become more and more fascinated with prospects. Losing teams tire of seeing the same players run onto the... Read More...

Redleg Trade Review: Ten Worst Reds Trades

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08/26/2009

Summarizing the Redleg Trade Review series, today I'll list my ten worst Reds trades ever. You can search all the trades that were reviewed by going to the Redleg Nation search engine at the upper right corner... Read More...

Redleg Trade Review: The Mechanized Big Red Machine

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07/28/2009

June 11, 1968: Milt Pappas is traded by the Cincinnati Reds with Ted Davidson and Bob Johnson to the Atlanta Braves for Clay Carroll, Tony Cloninger and Woody Woodward. October 11, 1968: Bobby Tolan is traded ... Read More...

Redleg Trade Review: Curt Flood and the Lost Pennant

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07/22/2009

December 5, 1957: Curt Flood is traded by the Cincinnati Redlegs with Joe Taylor to the St. Louis Cardinals for Marty Kutyna, Willard Schmidt and Ted Wieand. Curt Flood is best known today as the player who c... Read More...

Charley Jones and the Reserve Clause

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05/14/2009

Charley Jones is the name of a Reds superstar that few may know. In fact, Bill James, baseball historian, goes as far as to say heÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s one of the two best unrecognized players of the 1870Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s (the ot... Read More...

All-Time Ã¢â‚¬Å“They Were Reds?Ã¢â‚¬Â Team

Chad Dotson

05/06/2009

You may have noticed that we've been focusing on Reds history a little bit more recently (Thanks, Steve Price). We all love the Reds, and I don't want us to forget that this organization has a very storied and ... Read More...

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