1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings - Ohio History Center

1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Red_Stockings

Ohio History Center
Columbus, Ohio

Charlie Gould
1st Baseman for the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gould

Spring Grove Cemetery
Cincinnati, Ohio

Alfred Goshorn
1st president of what became the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_T._Goshorn

Spring Grove Cemetery
Cincinnati, Ohio

Drausin Wulsin (Cincinnati Red Stockings) - Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery
Cincinnati, Ohio

Drausin Wulsin
Charter member of the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1866.
Played second base and was a director of the club.

Bertha Bertram (Cincinnati Red Stockings) - Spring Grove Cemetery

Bertha Bertram
Spring Grove Cemetery
Section 29, lot 50, space 33
Cincinnati, Ohio

Made the uniforms for the 1867 through 1870 Cincinnati Base Ball Club, the Red Stockings.

Charles Bertram.

George Ellard - Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery
Section 39, lot 81, grave 4
Cincinnati, Ohio

George Ellard was a sporting goods dealer in Cincinnati. He was also president of the Union Cricket Club. He left to join the Cincinnati Base Ball club and is credited with the introduction of red stockings to the team.

Charlie Gould - Spring Grove Cemetery

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.

Alfred Goshorn - Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery, section 103 lot 22, Cincinnati Ohio

Alfred Goshorn, while not the most well known person nowadays, played a pivotal role in baseball. Goshorn was born in Cincinnati in 1833. In 1857 he earned a law degree from Marietta College. During the civil war he was a captain in the 137 O.V.I. (Ohio Volunteer Infantry). In July of 1866 he became president of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club. Yes, at one point baseball was two words. Goshorn held the post until April, 1869.

The month after Goshorn left the post, the club became the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

Alfred Goshorn also was the 1st director of the Cincinnati Museum of Art. He also help run various expositions around the country, including the centennial exposition in 1876. 

Goshorn died in 1902.