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Baseball team (1890?91)
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.
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The team took its name from the successful
Boston
club of the
National Association
and
National League
often known as the
(Boston) Red Stockings
. 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, while football's Cleveland Browns won the AAFC championship in 1949 and the NFL championship in 1950. The Reds are also the only Major League team that never failed to win a pennant.
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
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.
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Transferred to
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Defunct
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Years in parentheses are years in the American Association
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