Everything about The Boston Reds totally explained
The
Boston Reds were a
19th century baseball team located in
Boston, Massachusetts that played in the
Players League in
1890 and in the
American Association in
1891. They played in the
Congress Street Grounds in the 1890s. The team took its name from the successful
Boston club of the
National Association and
National League known as the
Red Stockings who had changed their name to the
Beaneaters in
1883. The club lasted only two seasons, but in those two seasons they were league champions.
In 1890 the Reds won the Players League Pennant when they finished first ahead of the
New York Giants, and then won the American Association Pennant when they finished first ahead of the
St. Louis Browns (now the Cardinals). The Boston Reds are one of two major league teams to win back-to-back pennants spanning two different leagues. The
Brooklyn Dodgers did it also, winning the AA pennant in 1889 and the NL pennant in 1890.
At the conclusion of the 1891 season, the
National League pressed for the consolidation of the
American Association with the
National League. Part of the posturing included the
National League directing its champion
Boston Beaneaters not to play the Reds in a
World Series. The leagues settled, adding four
AA clubs to a combined circuit. As part of the settlement, the owners of the four clubs not joining the combined circuit, including the Reds, were paid $135,000 and their players dispersed to the surviving clubs.
Their abandoned ballpark was revived for use by the National League club in 1894, during the weeks that
South End Grounds was being rebuilt following a fire. The Congress Street Grounds, with its close left field foul line, quickly gained some more history, as
Bobby Lowe hit four home runs in one game there, the first player to accomplish that feat.
Notable players
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