Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame

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The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame was instituted in 1958 to recognize the career of former Cincinnati Reds players, managers and front-office executives.

The Reds first teamed up with the Cincinnati Chapter of Commerce in 1958 to promote the inductions, which were voted on by Reds fanatics. Nevertheless, no induction took place in 1985, and starting in 1989, the discontinuation of the ceremonies lasted for nine years.

In 1998, Reds executive John Allen revived the inductions and turned over voting to the local chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which also votes annually for the team’s Most Valuable Player and pitcher as well.

There is also a museum that opened September 25, 2004 next to Great American Ball Park. It has more than 15,000 square feet of exhibit space on two floors and is open year-round. The museum showcases such unique items such as World Series trophies (from 1975, 1976 and 1990), the scorebook from the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings (baseball's first professional team), MVP trophies of Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan, a gallery of the Reds Hall of Fame plaques and other items.

Greg Rhodes, a Reds author, is currently the museum's executive director.

[edit] Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Members

1958 Paul Derringer Ernie Lombardi Frank McCormick Johnny Vander Meer Bucky Walters 1959 Ival Goodman Eppa Rixey 1960 Ewell Blackwell Edd Roush 1961 Lonny Frey Billy Werber 1962 Hughie Critz Bubbles Hargrave Ted Kluszewski 1963 Rube Bressler Harry Craft Heinie Groh * Noodles Hahn 1964 Gus Bell Pete Donohue 1965 Fred Hutchinson * * Larry Kopf Red Lucas Wally Post Johnny Temple 1966 Jake Daubert Mike McCormick Billy Myers

1967 Adolfo (Dolf) Luque Bill McKechnie * 1968 Sam Crawford Joe Nuxhall 1969 Warren Giles * * * 1970 Jim O'Toole 1971 Roy McMillan 1972 Gordy Coleman 1973 Jim Maloney 1974 Bob Purkey 1975 Smoky Burgess 1976 Brooks Lawrence 1977 Vada Pinson 1978 Frank Robinson 1979 Tommy Helms * 1980 Clay Carroll 1981 Leo Cárdenas 1982 Wayne Granger

1983 Gary Nolan 1984 Jack Billingham 1986 Johnny Bench 1987 Joe Morgan 1988 Jerry Lynch 1998 Tony Pérez * Cy Seymour 2000 Sparky Anderson * * Dave Concepción 2001 Bob Ewing Mario Soto 2002 Don Gullett Bid McPhee * 2003 George Foster Dummy Hoy 2004 Ken Griffey, Sr. Bob Howsam * * * Will White 2005 Eric Davis José Rijo George Wright Harry Wright * 2006 Tom Browning Lee May Tom Seaver

• Player and Manager

• • Manager

• • • Executive

[edit] Source

• Page at MLB
• Hall Of Fame Museum Official Website