Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Drink The team would not return

The team would not return for 1926

devastating crops

later renamed the Hens

which later became the Chicago Bears

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Drink The team would not returnThe 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