The Cincinnati Kids were a One-Year Wonder in the original Major Indoor Soccer League (1978-1992). They were active only for the league’s inaugural season in the winter of 1978-79 and folded shortly thereafter. The Kids gained some minor notoriety by virtue of the fact that Cincinnati Reds star Pete Rose was part of the team’s 10-man ownership group.
The Cincinnati Stingers hockey team began life in the upstart World Hockey Association in the winter of 1975-76. Owners Bill DeWitt Jr. and Brian Heekin originally sought to land an NHL expansion club for the Queen City, failed, and then accepted the first expansion franchise awarded by the fledgling WHA as a fallback option in May 1973.
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