The Cincinnati Red Stockings were America’s first all-professional baseball team, and the precursor to Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds Team. They are best known for their period of play between 1866-1870. During this time, they helped to establish some of the uniform standards still in use today by professional players, and are responsible for the color red being associated so closely with Cincinnati. They are also linked to the naming of Boston’s own team the Red Sox, as that team formed out of the rapidly changing dynamics of baseball at that time, and a number of the players originally with Cincinnati moved to Boston to form a new team.