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Watch Reds spring training video from 1950

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Call me a weirdo if you’d like, but old baseball footage just puts me in a good mood. On Friday afternoon I stumbled upon some video of the Cincinnati Reds from 1950, reportedly from March 7th in spring training. Assuming that is the correct date, this video would have been shot in Tampa, where the Reds held their spring training from 1931-1987, with the exception of 1943-1945 due to World War II when it was held in Bloomington, Indiana.

Thanks to Baseball-Reference, we can actually put some names with a few of the faces in the video by matching up jersey numbers (we’re going to assume guys didn’t change them after spring training).