Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Men's Clothing serving several franchises across the

serving several franchises across the following six decades

based in Tifton

were founded in 1923 by the Madison Athletic Association and spent nearly two decades working their way up through Wisconsin's minor league ladder

The Mount Sterling Essex were a minor league baseball team based in Mount Sterling

a rhyming nickname of the sort that filled early minor league standings

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Men's Clothing serving several franchises across theThe 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