Cincinnati Kelly's Killers

By contemporary newspaper accounts, the club was mainly referred to as the Cincinnati Reds, the same name as their cross-town rivals in the National League.

Reds' ownership sold the club to Players' League investor Albert Johnson.

Johnson then withdrew his newly acquired Reds club and moved them to the Players' League for the 1891 season.

However, for reasons that are still unknown, Johnson decided to sell his Reds club back to the National League before the start of the season.

The league placed a new franchise in the Queen City to fill the void left by the Reds' departure.

As the season progressed, Mike Kelly and his killers found themselves in jail frequently as a result of attempting to play baseball on Sundays.

The inconvenient location of the club's ballpark, poor play on the field and the fact that they were competing for spectators with the Reds hurt the Kelly's Killers' attendance.

Frank Dwyer, Willie Mains, Farmer Vaughn and Jim Canavan all signed on to play for the Milwaukee club.