Cincinnati Redlegs
date: label: date made
content: 1953-1959
name: label: referenced
content: Cincinnati Reds
notes: label: Description
content: Button featuring the Cincinatti Red Legs baseball team.
label: Description
content: Tthe Cincinnati Reds baseball team originated in the American Association (1882,) becoming one of the National League's founding members in 1890. In 1911 the team officially adopted the <i>Reds</i> nickname, a derivitve of their original name <i>Red Stockings.</i>
label: Description
content: In 1953, the Reds changed their name to the <i>Red Legs.</i> This was done due to tenisions arising from the Cold War between the United States and the Soviety Union, with <i>reds</i> being a common perjorative term used to referring to Russians as well as suspected communists. The name change was not embraced and the team reverted back to <i>Reds</i> in 1959.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: Subject
content: Cold War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lou Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0265.055
label: accession number
content: 1999.0265
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0265.055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13/16 in; x 2.032 cm