FindlayMarketParade.com was created to provide information about one of the grandest parades in baseball and the activities that surround it. Everything begins with the announcement of the Grand Marshal of the Parade, which occurs usually in early March. The last four Grand Marshals include: George Foster, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Frank Robinson.
This year's 95th Findlay Market Opening Day Parade will be Monday, March 31, with a start time of 12 noon. Parade begins at Findlay Market on Race, as usual, but will take a little different route this year, with a right on Liberty and a left on Elm down to Central Parkway and then back to Race with a right on Race (map will be posted soon). The Opening Day game will feature the Cincinnati Reds and the National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals with Matt Holliday and Matt Carpenter. It would be a good bet one of these two teams end up in the NL Championship Series.
Findlay Market Parade is giving away two pairs of tickets for the 2014 Cincinnati Reds Opening day game.
Photo contest, one Findlay Market Parade photo, one Reds super-fan (not necessarily a parade photo).
Opening Day, 1971, the Big Red Machine opened the season at Riverfront as the National League's defending champs before 51,000 shivering fans in 45 degree weather. The Reds lost to the Braves, 7-4.
