Who is the Oldest Baseball Team/Franchise??

Question

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Answer 1

The Cinncinati Reds (they used to be the Red Stockings) are the oldest professional (as in, paid to play) team, but other organizations are older. You'll find your answer below.

Answer 2

Cincy is, followed by the Cubbies.

Baseball owners unanimously approved the sale of baseball's oldest franchise, the Cincinnati Reds, on Thursday to a group headed by produce mogul Robert Castellini.

The Castellini family founded a shipping company along the Ohio River in 1896, 27 years after the Cincinnati Red Stockings became baseball's first professional team.

Answer 3

There are several really old teams, i don't know who is the oldest, but you would have to think there would be a few equally as old since they would have to play each other. The Yankees, Brooklyn Dogers (LA Dogers), Chicago Cubs, THe Boston Red Sox, The Cincinatti Reds, the Cleveland Indians (the Spiders 1890's) and The Boston Beaneaters (the Atlanta Braves -1889) are some of the oldest that I know of.

Answer 4

The oldest continuously operating team is the Atlanta Braves. They began playing as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871, taking several players from the legendary Cincinnati Red Stockings team that had folded the previous year. (The current Reds team has no direct link to the original Red Stockings.)

The oldest team in its original city is the Chicago Cubs, who also began in 1871 (as the Chicago White Stockings) but didn't play in '72 and '73 because of damage and losses from the Great Chicago Fire.

Answer 5

The CIncinnati Reds are the oldest franchise althought their franchise stated with the name the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

Answer 6

The original Red Stockings team can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in all of professional sports; the only other team that has been organized for as long, the Chicago Cubs,

Answer 7

Cincinnati Reds

Answer 8

Cincinnati

Answer 9

you've were given to be kidding me! some all and sundry is so fortunate. 1869! Unreal. And oh yeah, i ought to promote the cardboard if I had it, yet extremely that card needs to be in a museum. yet i ought to take as a lot money as i ought to get for it. I recommend the Honus Wagner card sells for a million in first rate structure.

Answer 10

Boston