Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors 000 major league games

000 major league games

with San Francisco's entry reborn as the Seals

were one of the few franchises in the predominantly Louisiana circuit to represent another state

The name reached back to the region's Californio past

Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors 000 major league gamesThe 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