[3] Red Man was initially sold in a few Midwestern states; it expanded in 1954 into the South, and then in 1963 largely nationwide.

[1] In January 2022, parent company Swedish Match announced that they would be changing brand's name to "America's Best Chew" and removing the depiction of a Native American chief on its packaging.

[6] The sets are valuable due to the appearance of 25 of the top players of 1952–55, including Stan Musial, Yogi Berra and Willie Mays.

This decision came after Levi Garrett's aggressive entrance into the chewing tobacco market in the United States.

[8][9] In 1991, under pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, which was enforcing a 1986 U.S. statute banning television ads for smokeless tobacco, Red Man agreed to stop displaying its "product logo, selling message or the color or design of the tobacco product or its package" during televised coverage of the tractor pulls.