Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are a professional baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and compete in Major League Baseball as a member of the National League Central Division. The modern club traces its origins to an independent team formed in the spring of 1881 after an earlier club of the same name was expelled from the National League for selling beer and renting its ballpark on Sundays. The Reds were a charter member of the American Association in 1882 and joined the National League in 1890. In the 1970s the team, known as the Big Red Machine, won five National League pennants and the 1975 and 1976 World Series, with players such as Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Pete Rose. Overall the Reds have won five World Series championships. They play at Great American Ball Park, which opened in 2003 with a capacity of 42,271.