[The quotes in this post from George Culver are from an interview he gave John Ring recently.]
For a franchise that has never produced a Cy Young Award winner, the Reds have a lot of history with no-hitters.
You can start with Johnny Vander Meer, the only hurler in the history of baseball to throw back to back no-hitters, which he did in 1938 against the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The only pitcher to come close to matching that feat was another Reds hurler– Ewell Blackwell who lost the second no-hitter in the 9th inning.