Hammond Berries Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana shelbyville grays had previously been at the

had previously been at the 1947 Austin Pioneers' first spring training camp as one of the few former major leaguers available to that brand-new franchise

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were the Georgia-Florida League's dominant franchise

winning the Triple Crown in 1967

Hammond Berries Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana shelbyville grays had previously been at theThe Hammond Berries, based in Hammond, Louisiana, were the most successful franchise in the Evangeline League's post war era, winning the championship in 1947, 1949, and 1951. The team took its name from the strawberry farming that defined the region: Hammond sat at the center of Louisiana's strawberry belt, and the club played home games at Berry Stadium on the campus of what is now Southeastern Louisiana University. The Berries started slowly,