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This team never existed. The 1880 Reds were a separate franchise than the 1876-79 Reds called the Stars. Needs to be corrected to the Cincinnati Stars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SCSRdotorg (talkcontribs) 08:24, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a source for that? The one I read said the owner of the Stars bought the Reds franchise and kept the name.. not that they became a different team named the Stars. Spanneraol (talk) 13:51, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I do, I'll get it all together here soon, Retrosheet agrees with my findings. We'll get it hammered out. Thx SCSRdotorg (talk) 05:19, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Here are some articles that prove that there was not a Reds teams in 1880 but a totally separate franchise called the Stars. SCSRdotorg (talk) 02:12, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Cincinnati Enquirer 10-27-1879. Talks about Justus Thorner's push to move his semi-pro Cincinnati Stars to the National League.
New York Times 12-01-1879. Talks about the Stars admission into the National League.
Buffalo Gazette 12-03-1979. Talks about the Stars admittance to the National League
Cincinnati Enquirer 04-03-1880. Article talks about the new Stars team of the National League.
Cincinnati Enquirer 04-27-1880. Article talks about the "new Cincinnati team."

Retrosheet changed their listing months ago.

https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/FR_CN4.htm