Yet another early baseball player. Gould was born in 1847 in Cincinnati. He started his baseball career when he joined the Buckeyes club in 1863. He jumped to the Cincinnati Base Ball Club in 1867 as the first baseman.
In 1869 the team became the Red Stockings. His nickname was the bushel basket. Charlie was the only person from Cincinnati on the team. His salary was $800. Seems paltry by todays standards. In a game against the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1870, his throwing error in the 11th ended the Red Stockings 84 game winning streak. After the season the team dropped the professionalism. 1871 and 1872 he was with the Boston Red Stockings. When the National League formed in 1876, Gould became the first manager of the newly created Reds team. After his playing games, Charlie became a police officer.
He died in Flushing, New York in his 69th year. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Spring Grove Cemetery, section 67 lot 54 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1951, Warren Giles, president of the Reds (later president of the National League) started a campaign to mark Gould's grave.
