MLB commissioner will be grand marshal for Cincinnati parade
Posted February 12, 2019 6:00 am
CINCINNATI (AP) - Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred will serve as grand marshal for Cincinnati's annual opening day parade as he helps celebrate the 150th anniversary of the professional baseball-pioneering Red Stockings.
The Reds announced Tuesday Manfred will lead the 100th Findlay Market parade, which will wind through the city ahead of the March 28 game when the Reds host the Pirates. Reds team historian Greg Rhodes says the Findlay Market merchants' parade grew out of disorganized opening day parades around town by different civic and neighborhood groups.
The Associated Press reported Monday that Manfred would be in Cincinnati for opening day festivities as MLB and the Reds commemorate baseball's first openly all-salaried team. MLB teams will wear patches and the Reds will have special patches, uniforms and events throughout the season.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Phillip J. Castellini, president and chief operating officer, of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team speaks during an interview at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team uniforms for the 2019 season are displayed at Great American Ball Park, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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FILE - In this June 26, 1942 file photo, Cincinnati Reds All-Stars line up at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York before a game with the Brook Dodgers. From left to right are Bill McKechnie; Bucky Walters, pitchers; Frank McCormick, first baseman; Johnny Vander Meer, pitcher, and Paul Derringer, pitcher. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 1990 file photo, Cincinnati Reds Billy Hatcher (22) confers with third base coach Sam Perlozzo (2) after Hatchers triple in the eighth inning against the Oakland Athletics in the second game of the World Series in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 1935 file photo, John Mize, left, chats with coach George Kelly as he reports for spring training at the Cincinnati Reds' camp in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo, File)
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Greg Rhodes, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team historian, speaks during an interview at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Greg Rhodes, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team historian, holds a replica jersey of the early Cincinnati Red Stockings team at Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Greg Rhodes, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team historian, holds a copy of The First Boys of Summer to a page showing a photograph of the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1870 during an interview at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Reds will play games in 15 sets of throwback uniforms, including navy blue and a "Palm Beach" style, during a season-long celebration of the 1869 Red Stockings who pioneered professional baseball. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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