Cincinnati Reds - The World War I Era (1910-1919)

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Titles:

Top Reds Players of the Teens

1919 World Champs (Beat the Black Sox)

Pitchers:

Ballpark:

Fred Toney (16.57) - 41

Palace of the Fans (1910-1911)

George Suggs (14.12) - 39

Redland Park (1912-1919)

Pete Schneider (6.91) - 37

Hod Eller (7.11) - 30

Team Name:

Rube Benton (6.42) - 29

Reds

Slim Sallee (3.97) - 16

Art Fromme (6.72) - 16

Owners:

Red Ames (5.37) - 15

Consortium led by Garry Herrmann

Harry Gaspar (7.81) - 15

Dutch Ruether (3.63) - 14

General Managers:

Gene Dale (1.72) - 13

None

Jimmy Ring (3.29) - 11

Bobby Keefe (4.31) - 8

Managers:

Clark Griffith (1910-1911)

Catchers:

Hank O'Day (1912)

Ivy Wingo (7.8) - 37

Joe Tinker (1913)

Tommy Clarke (12.53) - 24

Buck Herzog (1914-1916)

Larry McLean (5.11) - 20

Ivy Wingo (1916)

Christy Mathewson (1916-1918)

First Basemen:

Heinie Groh (1918)

Dick Hoblitzel (6.58) - 24

Pat Moran (1919)

Hal Chase (5.85) - 16

Hall of Famers:

Second Basemen:

Three Fingers Brown

Dick Egan (2.37) - 12

Clark Griffith

Christy Mathewson

ShortStop:

Joe Tinker

Buck Herzog (12.03) - 27

Edd Roush

Larry Kopf (4.79) - 11

Joe Tinker (3.8) - 10

MVP

None

Third Base:

Heinie Groh (33.85) - 65

No Hitters:

Fred Toney (1917)

Outfield:

Hod Eller (1919)

Edd Roush (16.48) - 54

Bob Bescher (11.35) - 35

Notable Events:

Greasy Neale (5.57) - 32

Mike Mitchell (6.49) - 27

1910 - The Reds were mediocre in the Oughts and they will again be mediocre

Johnny Bates (9.43) - 26

in the Teens.

Tommy Griffith (4.71) - 25

At the top of the decade, there were several keepers on the roster, who,

Armando Marsans (2.57) - 19

for the most part, Cincinnati forgot to keep, at least in the long run.

Dode Paskert (4.33) - 14

□ Larry McLean, 28, catcher ==> the Reds kept him

Sherry Magee (4.61) - 12

□ Dick Hoblitzell, 21, first base ==> the Reds kept him

Red Killefer (3.78) - 10

□ Hans Lobert, 28, third base ==> dealt to the Phillies

Jim Thorpe (0.48) - 0

□ Dode Paskert, 28, outfield ==> dealt to the Phillies

□ Bob Bescher, 26, outield ==> dealt to the Giants

Notable Events:

□ Rube Benton, 20, pitcher ==> dealt to the Giants

□ Harry Coveleski, 24, pitcher - three time twenty game winner with Detroit

1912 - Redland Field opens. Its on the same site as both the Palace of the

Coveleski went to the Tigers from the Reds via Chattanooga

Fans and the previous Redland Field. Both had burned down previously.

With increasing attendence, the spacious Opera House type

1910-1919 - Cincinnat had an odd decade in that they kept bringing up good young

grandstand was torn down to accommodate regular seating.

players year after year, but kept letting many of them slip thru their fingers:

The park was built out of steel and brick and bleachers were

□ 1911 - Armando Marsans, 23, OF ==> jumped to St. Louis of the Federal League

contstructed. It seated 20,000. A distinguishing safety feature

□ 1911 - George McQuillen, 26, pitcher, ==> ended up with the Pirates via Columbus

was an incline near the leftfield fence to warn outfielders of the fence.

□ 1911 - Hank Severeid, 20, catcher ==> ended up with the Browns via Louisville

This wasn't a safety feature by design, the landscape sloped

□ 1912 - Bill Doak, 21, RHP ==> ended up with the Cards, where he was a star,

that way in left field and the builders went with the flow.

via Columbus, Akron

Eventually, the club contoured the entire outfield that way.

□ 1912 - Jim Bagby, 22, RHP ==> ended up with Cleveland, where he was a star,

via New Orleans

1917 - Reds pitcher Fred Toney and Cubs pitcher Hippo Vaughn both

□ 1913 - Heinie Groh, 23, third base ==> the Reds hung onto Heinie

toss nine inning no-hitters in the same game. The Reds go on to

who was a mainstay for them

win 1-0 in extra innings.

□ 1914 - Mike Gonzalez, 23, catcher ==> traded to Cards

□ 1914 Pete Schneider, 18, RHP ==> flamed out by the age of twenty two

1918 - Cincinnati has a betting scandal of it's own prior

□ 1915 - Ken Williams, 25, OF ==> became a great home run hitter

to the 1919 World Series. Their first baseman was Hal Chase

with the Browns

from 1916 thru mid 1918. Altho' an outstanding player, it

□ 1915 - Fred Toney, 26, RHP ==> Reds kept him thru the Teens but

became apparent to individuals in the Reds organization such

sold him to the Giants for whom he had a number of big years in the Twenties

as Edd Roush and Christy Mathewson that Chase was

□ 1915 - Phil Dougles, 25, RHP ==> had some success later with the Giants

making uncharacteristic outs and errors at crucial times in

□ 1915 - Ivey Wingo, 24, catcher ==> obtained for Mike Gonzalez from the Cards

ballgames. He was suspended for "indifferent play" in mid

□ 1915 -Tommy Griffith, 26, OF ==> bought from the Braves,

1918 and ultimately banned from the game along with

later dealt to the Dodgers

star outfielder Sherry Magee

□ 1916 - Eddie Roush, 23, OF ==> future Hall of Famer

Acquired from the Giants in a trade. He was dealt back to the Giants in 1927

1919 - The Reds come out of nowhere to win the NL pennant. They

and then back to the Reds again in 1931

become the seventh different team to win the pennant in an eleven year

□ 1916 - Greasy Neale, 24, OF ==> kept by Cincinnati

stretch with only the Cardinals not winning the NL title during the run.

solid contributor for the Reds

Cincinnati improves twenty two games in the standings from 1918 to do it.

□ 1916 - Larry Kopf, 25, shortstop ==> bought from the A's

The main reason for the big uptick was the emergence of a trio of pitchers.

played five years for the Reds

Thirty four year old righthander Slim Sallee was picked off of the scrap

□ 1916 - Clarence Mitchell, 25, LHP ==> played 18 years

heap from the Giants and won twenty one games; Youngsters Hod Eller,

finishing with the Giants

a twenty three year old righthander; and Dutch Reuther a twenty four year

□ 1917 - Hod Eller, 22, RHP ==> had four big years,

old lefthander, both emerge as nineteen game winners.

hurt his arm, was gone at 25

□ 1917 - Dutch Reuther, 23, LHP ==> traded to Dodgers in 1920

1919 - Cincinnati wins the World Series. The victory was tainted by the

for aging Rube Marquard

Black Sox scandal, but the Reds were a deserving club. Enough of the

□ 1917 - Jimmy Ring, 22, RHP => traded to the Phillies for Eppa Rixey

good young players that were coming up every year stuck around to

□ 1917 - Rube Bressler, 22, LHP / OF ==> stayed with the Reds

make Cincinnati a truly formidable and youthful club. The best of the

for eleven years

group was Hall of Famer Edd Roush.

□ 1918 - Dolph Luque, 27, RHP ==> stayed with the Reds for twelve years

□ 1918 - Jesse Haines, 24, RHP ==> Hall of Famer with the Cardinals

1910 - With eight different field managers during the decade, there was no continuity

and it showed in the personnel manueverings which were extremely disjointed

throughout. The only consistency was that Garry Herrmann had an affinity for

making deals with the Giants. It was reminiscent of the National League in the

1890's where one team would be sort of a farm club for another in the league.

The top players moving between the Reds and Giants with the better ones

going in New York's direction:

Bob Bescher, Rube Benton, Larry Benton, Fred Toney, Fred Douglas,

Edd Roush, Slim Sallee, Buck Herzog, George Burns. Josh Devore,

Clarence Mitchell, George Kelly, and Heinie Groh.

Even Giant great Christy Mathewson was part of the pipeline.

Then Reds owner John Brush had dealt Christy to the Giants in 1901

at the age of twenty before he ever pitched a game for Cincinnati.

When Christy was at the end of his playing career, the Giants traded him back

to the Reds in 1916 where he was immediately installed as player-manager.

Christy pitched one game for the Reds before retiring to manage.