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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.
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 ...
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.
A third Cincinnati team of the same name was founded in 1881, becoming a founding member of the American Association, a rival league that began play in 1882. That team (which is the same franchise of today) played for eight seasons in the American Association and won the first Association pennant in 1882.
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]
They began play as the independent Ethiopian Clowns, joined the Negro American League as the Cincinnati Clowns and, after a couple of years, relocated to Indianapolis. Hank Aaron was a Clown for a short period, and the Clowns were also one of the first professional baseball teams to hire a female player.
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 ...
Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 978-1-55652-796-8. OCLC 489009727. Gregorich, Barbara (1993). Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball. San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Company. pp. 169–176. ISBN 978-0-15-698297-9. OCLC 27430189.