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  2. Lizzie Arlington - Wikipedia

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    On June 20, 1891, at age 13, Arlington took the field as the pitcher for the Mahanoy City baseball team against the visiting Cincinnati Reds (a professional women's team barnstorming through the area). Reds' manager Mark Lally, impressed with her play, immediately recruited and signed her to play for his team.

  3. Dorothy Kamenshek - Wikipedia

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    A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Kamenshek played outfield for a local softball league, and at the age of 17 she was spotted by a scout from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. After tryouts at Wrigley Field in Chicago, she joined the Rockford Peaches as an outfielder when the league began in 1943, but was soon playing first base.

  4. Cincinnati Reds - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the modern Cincinnati Reds baseball team can be traced back to the expulsion from the National League of an earlier team bearing the same name. In 1876, Cincinnati became one of the charter members of the new National League (NL), but the club ran afoul of league organizer and longtime president William Hulbert for selling beer ...

  5. Marge Schott - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Carolyn Schott (née Unnewehr; August 18, 1928 – March 2, 2004) was an American baseball executive.Serving as managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999, she was the second woman to own a North American major-league team without inheriting it, after New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson.

  6. History of the Cincinnati Reds - Wikipedia

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    The Cincinnati Reds, a Major League Baseball team, were originally members of the American Association from 1882 to 1889; the team has played in the National League ever since, being one of only five 19th-century teams still playing in its original city.

  7. List of people from Cincinnati - Wikipedia

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    Delilah L. Beasley – first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper; Marty Brennaman – Cincinnati Reds radio play-by-play announcer 1974–2019; Thom Brennaman – sports broadcaster; Gary Burbank – radio personality; Nick Clooney – journalist, anchorman, and television host, father of George ...

  8. Rosie Reds - Wikipedia

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    The Rosie Reds, also known as Rosie Reds, Inc., is a philanthropic and social organization focused on the Cincinnati Reds. [1] [2] The organization was founded by a group of local Cincinnati women in June 1964 in response to the Reds' then-owner Bill DeWitt's proposal to move the team to San Diego. [3]

  9. Morganna - Wikipedia

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    Morganna Roberts was born in Louisville, Kentucky.She was a baseball fan from a young age, as her grandfather took her to see the Louisville team. [5] She grew up in a poor family; her mother Jane disowned Morganna as a baby, which led to her grandmother Virginia's taking care of Morganna for six years.