I agree and understand that balls are sort of a different game altogether than most species when it comes to selective breeding. But there were decades where there wasn't much to work with (before the explosion of morphs) where I would think that selectively breeding would have resulted in some high reds, at least to the point where I would have heard that term when talking about ball pythons.
As far as Kevin working on high reds, is that through selective breeding, or is it through trying for 5 way combos using morphs that show a lot of oranges and pinks?