the cincinnati red stockings first loss was to the brooklyn atlantics baseball club.
the cincinnati red stockings first loss was to which baseball club?
the brooklyn atlantics
the original cincinnati red stockings, baseball's first openly all-professional team, was founded in 1866, and became fully professional in 1869. the red stockings won 130 straight games throughout 1869 and 1870, before being defeated by the brooklyn atlantics. star players included brothers harry and george wright, fred waterman, and pitcher asa brainard. the 1869 red stockings made an eastern swing of 21 games and went undefeated. according to walter camp, the team received a banquet and a "champion bat...this rather remarkable testimonial was twenty-seven feet long and nine inches in diameter." the following year, the team lost only one game. they were defeated at the brooklyn athletic's capitoline grounds park. according to camp, the red stockings lost 8–7 in 11 innings. the game apparently served as a precursor to today's unruly crowds because he wrote: "a crowd of ten thousand people assembled to witness this match, and so lost their heads in the excitement as to give the western men a very unfair reception." [see: "base-ball for the spectator" walter camp, "century magazine" october 1889]
history of the cincinnati reds
harry wright was hired by founder and president ivers whitney adams to organize a new pro club in boston and he signed three cincinnati teammates to join the 1871 boston red stockings in the first professional league, as it turned out. ex-cincinnati red stockings moved around some (see the note on team members) but boston retained both wright brothers throughout the five years of the national association.





























the current cincinnati reds club identifies itself with the cincinnati red stockings, despite reorganization and defections in the early years.
cincinnati red stockings