If Powel Crosley Jr. ever met an innovation he didn’t like, he kept it a secret.
From the first mass-produced, inexpensive radios to the first refrigerator doors with shelves to the first sub-compact cars, the Cincinnati inventor-businessman built a fortune that allowed him to purchase the Cincinnati Reds in February 1934.
Crosley needed just more than a year to plant his innovative stamp on the Reds.