Axis of Evil Knieval makes it 3 in a Row

The Redlegs?

Yes. Their first baseman was Leon Trotsky.

It would probably be more correct to say that the team changed its name because in view of the Communist threat there was fairly widespread agreement that the name "Reds" had become inappropriate for an American sports team rather than that the change was inspired by "McCarthyism." Our poor benighted parents and grandparents didn't have the advantage of your 21st Century political sophistication and cosmopolitanism, and mistakenly assumed that Soviet Communism constituted a real rather than an exaggerated and largely imaginary threat. Faced with a similar threat today, we would no doubt let the Cincinnati Reds continue to be the Reds, perhaps with a hammer and sickle as the new team logo. In the interests of political diversity and correctness, we could change Boston's team name to the "Boston Bolshovik Sox," and Pittsburgh's to the"Pittsburgh Pinkos."

In any event, Trotsky was a butcher in the field.

But as we all know, Fidel Castro was thisfar from being a starting pitcher on the Yankees.

And Lenin couldn't hit the curve ball to save his life. Stalin had good instincts as a manager, but he had a tendency to shake up the starting rotation too much with constant purges.

I still like to refer to the Soviet Union of the 1970s as "The Big Red Machine".