2006-08-05 15:26:36 · 13 answers · asked by Topher 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
They weren't the first professional team, that would probably be boston, with a different name probably
2006-08-05 15:30:51 · update #1
guys it's a joke come on...
2006-08-05 15:32:36 · update #2
well thanks for telling me about that, I knew it must have created suspicion during the Red Scare in the 50s and 60s, I did not know that, Thank you! You will get best answer when I am able to choose one.
2006-08-05 15:41:59 · update #3
wow very educational bit of superstition and rumors
2006-08-05 16:00:34 · update #4
No, it doesn't. Initially, the Reds name was "Red Stockings", but was changed to Reds. During the Communist scare during the '50s, the team name was change to Redlegs, in order to avoid being associated with Communism. When the Cold War was on the downside, the team name went back to Reds. They weren't the first "professional" team, but they were the one of the first two teams (the other being the Cubs) that were in the National League.
2006-08-05 15:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It does. Long before the Soviet Empire collapsed and as they were spying on the US with spies here in America, they new if the worst came to pass and they needed to retreat to some safe haven here in America, that Americas favorite past time would be one place no one would suspect of being infested with spies. So the Soviets began warming up to the Cincinnati baseball team with this goal in mind. Being located in the midwest was another big draw for choosing the Reds.
Rumour has it, if you take apart a baseball from a Reds home game, and turn the leather cover inside out, it will be marked as having some ties to the Soviet Union. It has also been rumoured, many of the vendors at the Reds home games speak Russian and might accidentially give you change in rubels if they reach into the wrong pocket.
Maybe the biggest surprise in all this is that the hot dogs served at the Reds games is actually made from what comes out of the south end of a Russian bull when he needs to deficate, and is heading north, just like this entire response.
2006-08-05 22:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by scubadiver50704 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Their team name comes from the early Cincinnati Red Stockings, a professional team that began playing professionally in 1869 but had been in existence for several years. (At the time, it was common for team names to be a reference to their uniforms.) The association of the color red with Communism didn't start until the revolution in Russia in 1917.
2006-08-06 01:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original official name of the team is the Cincinatti Red Legs. Nothing to do with communism.
2006-08-05 22:31:55 · answer #4 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the original team had red socks. take off the socks part and put an s at the end of red and you've got yourself a professional baseball team
2006-08-05 23:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by invincible 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because that stands for the color of their socks. There were no commies ( or at least as powerful as they were later) in the 1870s when the Reds began play.
2006-08-05 22:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Reds is short for Redstockings which is what the team was first called waaaay back in the1880's
2006-08-05 22:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it does not. The Reds got their name from the socks that they used to wear; they were red.
2006-08-05 22:42:48 · answer #8 · answered by think2day 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they were the first professional team, and the name reflected the uniform color.
2006-08-05 22:29:44 · answer #9 · answered by BenchCoachcom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all it's Cincinnati and no, it had to do with their uniform when they were first formed. Their original name was Cincinnati Redstockings.
2006-08-05 22:32:08 · answer #10 · answered by kimberlindner 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋