CROSLEY FIELD America’s beloved pastime, baseball, traces its professional roots to the City of Cincinnati and the establishment of the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869. Although winning 130 straight games in 1869 and 1870, the Red Stockings dissolved after the 1870 season. A new Red Stockings ...
Once complete, the switches were flown to Crosley in Cincinnati. Winston Churchill ordered special Lancaster bombers to pick up the completed VT fuzes at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati and fly them directly to the battlefield at Antwerp. 2,183 of 2,394 of the V-1s that attacked Antwerp were ...
On May 13, 1947, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 7-5 at Crosley Field. The box score below is an accurate record of this regular season baseball game. Research byBaseball Almanac. "The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing ey...
Crosley also lit the grounds of Crosley Field, home of the baseball team he owned, the Cincinnati Reds, so it could host the first-ever night game in professional baseball: in 1935, against the Philadelphia Phillies. And through Crosley Motors he built one of the first US-made small cars,...