Context: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest current professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, it is sometimes called the Senior Circuit, in contrast to MLB's other league, the American League, which was founded 25 years later. Both leagues currently have 15 teams. The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series. After the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement, the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues. National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016. The 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs., Ohio is an Eastern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus., At the end of each Major League Baseball season, the league leaders of various statistical categories are announced. Leading the league in a particular category is referred to as a "title"., Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding., The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Reds compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. They were a charter member of the American Association in 1882 and joined the NL in 1890., The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum is an entity established by Major League Baseball 's Cincinnati Reds franchise that pays homage to the team 's past through displays , photographs and multimedia . It was instituted in 1958 to recognize the career of former Cincinnati Reds players , managers and front - office executives . The Reds first teamed up with the Cincinnati Chapter of Commerce in 1958 to promote the inductions , which were voted on by Reds fans . Nevertheless , no induction took place in 1985 , and starting in 1989 , the discontinuation of the ceremonies lasted for nine years . In 1998 , Reds executive John Allen revived the inductions and turned over voting to the local chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America , which also votes annually for the team 's Most Valuable Player and pitcher . The museum opened September 25 , 2004 , next to Great American Ball Park . It has more than 15,000 square feet ( 1,400 m2 ) of exhibit space on two floors and is open year - round . The museum showcases such unique items such as World Series trophies ( from 1975 , 1976 and 1990 ) , the scorebook from the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings ( baseball 's first professional team ) , MVP trophies of Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan , a gallery of the Reds Hall of Fame plaques and other items . Rick Walls took over the role of museum executive director on August 1 , 2007 , for Greg Rhodes ( the museum 's first executive director ) , who remained with the Cincinnati Reds as team historian . Currently , the Hall of Fame section is home to 81 inductees . These inductees include players , managers & executives who were involved in Cincinnati 's baseball legacy , which dates back to 1869 , the year the original Cincinnati Red Stockings took the field . Inductions take place every other year ., Subject: cincinnati reds hall of fame and museum, Relation: located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entity, Options: (A) canada (B) cincinnati (C) columbus (D) most (E) of (F) ohio
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