For The Enquirer’s 175th anniversary year, we are digging into our archives to showcase historic photographs that capture the people, places, events and character of this community that we have chronicled and been a part of the past 175 years.
We may have called it Redland Field or Crosley Field, but it was really Matty Schwab’s field.
Schwab was the superintendent and groundskeeper of the Reds’ ballparks for 60 years, starting in 1903 when he took over for his father. Matty had been on the crew at League Park since 1894, then after two years pitching in the Cotton States League, he became caretaker of the new Palace of the Fans.