Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:2XL who went 13-5 as a

who went 13-5 as a 1961 AL All-Star for Cleveland

they were part of a rich baseball tradition in the Ohio River Valley

was a Class D minor league that operated intermittently from 1910 to 1955

The 1905 season would be cut short by the yellow fever epidemic

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:2XL who went 13-5 as aThe Rayne Rice Birds, based in Rayne, Louisiana, carried one of the most distinctive nicknames the Evangeline League ever produced. The name refers to the bobolink, a migratory songbird that descended on Louisiana's rice fields each autumn in enormous flocks, devastating crops. Rayne farmers and locals had called the bird the "rice bird" for generations, and Rayne itself sat deep in Acadia Parish rice country, making the name an entirely natural