Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:XL and the city's ranching and

and the city's ranching and agricultural heritage defined the area long before the postwar minor league boom arrived

one of the departures that effectively ended the Big State League

and the rise of television

The Blue-Grays were affiliated at various times with the Boston Braves

Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:XL and the city's ranching andThe Baton Rouge Red Sticks, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, played in the Evangeline League from 1946 through 1955. The team's name is a translation of the city's own: Baton Rouge is French for "red stick," named by early French explorers for a tall red painted cypress pole they found on the Mississippi riverbank, used by local tribes as a boundary marker between hunting grounds. The Red Sticks won the 1950 Evangeline League championship, scoring a