REDS HALL OF FAME
George "Sparky"
Anderson Johnny
Bench
Ted
Kluszewski
Ernie
Lombardi
John "Bid"
McPhee
Joe
Morgan
Joseph
Nuxhall
Eppa Rixey
PEREZ - STEELE CARDS
These Hall of Fame cards drawn by the official Hall of Fame artist Dick Perez come in many different sets. In addition to the Celebration, Great Moments and Masterwork sets there are series sets 1 thru 15. Naturally I am not collecting the complete sets, just those showing Cincinnati Reds HOF players.
Johnny
Bench Candy Cummings
Edd
Roush
Eppa
Rixey
Warren
Giles
Celebration
set
First
Series
Third
Series
Fourth
Series
Sixth Series
"Candy" Cummings was a RHP who has been given credit for inventing the curveball. He is also the first pitcher to pitch 2 complete games on the same day, (of the 239 games he pitched, he completed 233 of them). He only pitched 19 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1877 before he left to become president of the new International Association for Professional Base Ball Players. He was an outfielder from 1869 to 1893. Warren Giles was General Manager and team president of the Cincinnati Reds from 1937 - 1951. He then became President of the National League from 1951 - 1969.
Harry
Wright George
Wright
Third
Series
First Series
Harry Wright started and managed the very first professional baseball teams, the Cincinnati Red Stockings along with his brother, George Wright who played shortstop. He is shown in his Boston Uniform.
Ernie Lombardi Johnny Bench Joe Morgan Bid McPhee Sparky Anderson Tony Perez
Ninth Series Tenth Series Eleventh Series Fifteenth Series
COOPERSTOWN HALL OF FAME
Autographed
Johnny
Bench
Mordecai Brown Hazen
"Kiki"
Cuyler
Lloyd
Waner
George Wright
Catcher
1967-83
RHP
1913
OF
1935-37
OF
1941
1st team 1869
Autographed Autographed
Autographed
Edd Roush
Joe Morgan
"Sparky" Anderson
Tony Perez
Harry Wright
OF 1916-26 & 1931
2B 1972-79
Manager 1970-78
1B/3B 1964-76
1st team 69-70
1984-86
Eppa
Rixey
William McKechnie Samuel
Crawford Warren
Giles Jesse
Joseph Haines
P
1921-1933
Manager 1938-46 Cincinnati
1899-1902 President Reds
P 1918
1937-1951
The back of the Barry Larkin card has a dedication day cancel 7-22-2012.
Artvue Card
George Wright
1869 SS/Captain
The 1st card above is card 9 from the 3rd series of Legends Sports Memorabilia from 1992. The Pete Rose postcard from the Legends Sports Memorabilia is card 1 Cover 26 of their 1992 cover.
This is a rather unusual Ken Griffey souvenir postcard. The front side shows a truncated view of the middle two sections of the 1865-66 panoramic view of Cincinnati (see Bird's-Eye-View Page). Produced by the Topps Company, the back has a stamp with Griffey's face and a printed message.
The 1st over large postcard above is an invitation to the unveiling of the Andy Warhol poster at the Cincinnati Art Museum Main Lobby on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. There were 1000 limited edition posters. Posters 1 through 114 were signed by Rose, framed, and available for $500. Unsigned, numbered posters were $50 each. The 2nd postcard was put out by the Andy Warhol Foundation in 1989. The 3rd postcard drawing of Pete was put out by the Thumper Corp. in 1989, for what purpose I do not know.
Miller Painting
Pete Rose HOF
Ballot
The 1st postcard shows a painting of Pete by Arthur K. Miller. The last card was issued in March of 2007 for a exhibition at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum called "Pete: a Celebration".
Both of the cards above were probably produced by Johnny Bench himself so he could answer his fans request for a picture and possibly a autograph, although he did not actually sign these individually. The backs of both are identical.
The postcard above was sent out by the Cincinnati Reds in November of 2010 to their 2010 season ticket holders to thank them for their support.
This card was mailed in May of 1904 from the Ellenora, Ohio post office. Ellenora is located along Beechmont Ave. in the Mt. Washington area.
This very rare card shows a baseball game being played. Unfortunately the park is not identified.
RIVERFRONT STADIUM
Scale models of the new Riverfront Stadium
Baseball
configuration
Football configuration
FIRST NIGHTER CERTIFICATE
This certificate was apparently passed out to the fans who attended the first game played at Riverfront Stadium on 6/30/70.
The above photograph was taken by Frank Kammerer during the celebration for the last night game at Riverfront Stadium.
GREAT AMERICAN BALLPARK
Of course the Reds now play in the Great American Ball Park (GABP) that was opened for the 2003 baseball season. There are many more cards of these two stadiums in the Modern Chromes section. The 3rd card above was only given out at one game in 2011 as part of a Scotts Lawn Care promotion. Perforated at the top it held Lawn Care coupons.
NAME CHANGES
SPRING TRAINING CAMP
Brighton is now considered part of the West End around the Camp Washington area. The card was mailed May 11th to Mt Adams.
FOOTBALL
Of course the Cincinnati Bengals also played at Riverfront Stadium. Above are larger than normal postcards of the 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1977 teams. Other than these issues it does not appear the Bengal players had any postcards made to answer fan mail like the Reds did. The only other postcards are the ones taken of the stadiums where they played (that I know of).
The cover above commemorates the 1982 American Conference Champion Cincinnati Bengals playing in Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Continental card above is for the Super Bowl the Bengals played in at Joe Robbie Stadium in 1989.
PAUL BROWN STADIUM
Of course Riverfront Stadium was razed and in its place two stadiums arose, The Reds Great American Ballpark and the Bengals Paul Brown Stadium. You can see many more images of the two new stadiums in the Modern chrome section.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
The National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame was built in 1978 and was located next to the King's Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Expected to bring up to 300,000 people a year to the area, the attendance was terrible. Except for a fairly good first year attendance averaged out to about 30,000 a year. It was closed in 1992 and moved to South Bend, Ind. where it reopened in 1995. Due to poor attendance there (80,000/year) plans are now being made to move it once again to Atlanta in 2013. The original structure seen above was razed in 2004.
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