LITTLE KNOWN FACTS TO DAZE AND AMAZE YOU

CINCINNATI

Ø             Home of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Redstockings, formed in 1869.

Ø             Hosted the first night baseball game played under the lights in 1935 (Crosley Field).

Ø             Founding site of the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, later known as the Boy Scouts of America.

Ø             Home of the first concrete skyscraper built in the United States (1902), the Ingals Building.

Ø             Home to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Ø             Home to Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, who served as a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979.

Ø             Birthplace of Doris Day, born Doris Von Kappelhoff in 1924. 

Ø             Birthplace of Leonard Franklin Slye, later known as Roy Rogers, in 1911.

Ø             Birthplace of Steven Spielberg.

Ø             Birthplace of Ted Turner.

Ø             Birthplace of Eddie Arcaro.

Ø             Previously governed by Mayor Jerry Springer, who later was the anchor on WLWT-TV News, and soon to be United States Senator from Ohio.

Ø             Birthplace of Pete Rose.

Ø             Home to Roger Staubach, who played football at Purcell High School in Cincinnati.

Ø             23rd most populated city in the country.

LOUISVILLE

(pronounced LOUAHVUL)

Ø             Birthplace of Cassius Clay in 1942.

Ø             Origin of the cheeseburger (1934).

Ø             Birthplace of gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson.

Ø             Home to the world’s tallest baseball bat (120 feet), outside the Louisville Slugger Museum in downtown Louisville.

Ø             Home to Louisville Slugger Field, home of the Louisville Bats, AAA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.