Cincinnati Red Stockings (Baseball team)

found: The first boys of summer, c1994:title page (Cincinnati Red Stockings) page 4, et cetera (founded 1868; disbanded in 1870; reorganized in 1876)

found: Wikipedia website, viewed September 21, 2015(organized on July 23, 1866 as the Cincinnati Base Ball Club in a Cincinnati law office; the Club was nicknamed, and became more popularly known as, the Cincinnati Red Stockings for the color of the stockings they wore; became the first all professional baseball team and went undefeated from late 1868 until June 14, 1870; the nickname was shortened in the late 1870's to the Cincinnati Reds)

found: E-mail from Chris Eckes, Chief Curator Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, September 21, 2015(the original Cincinnati Base Ball Club that began operation as an amateur organization ceased operation in November of 1870, the end of its second season fielding an all-paid team; a new/reconstituted Cincinnati Base Ball Club was formed in September of 1875 and operated through the 1880 season before it too was disbanded; club nicknames were not nearly as "official" in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries; the club's nickname was primarily the "Red Stockings" but derivatives of the primary nickname, such as "Reds," were frequently used; "Cincinnati Base Ball Club" was the team's official name, but it was a distinctly different club from the one that was established in 1866)