He played one game for the Louisville Colonels of the major-league American Association in 1891.

Baseball records, which are incomplete for the era, show that Reeder played professionally during 1890 in the Indiana State League, for the Bluffton and Muncie teams.

[1] In 1892, Reeder played 17 games for Spokane of the Pacific Northwest League.

[1] He appears to have played semi-professionally in 1893 for a team based in Louisville,[4] and also worked as an umpire that season.

[1] A report in the Lexington Herald-Leader indicates he was playing for a team based in Georgetown, Kentucky, in early August 1894.