The Way It Was (The Washington Times)
More info...During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the Cincinnati Reds briefly changed their traditional nickname and logo to Redlegs, presumably assuring that no politically challenged individuals would confuse a baseball team from Middle America with the Communist menace from Moscow. It's highly ironic, therefore, that those Redlegs were at least temporary beneficiaries of a ballot-packing scheme ...


