Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana missouri with a wartime interruption from

with a wartime interruption from 1943 through 1945

: Fabric blends: Heather Sport colors - 60% polyester

was home to a number of KITTY League (Kentucky-Illinois-Tennesee) teams over the years

resumed after the wartime suspension in 1946

The Paris Bourbonites were a minor league baseball team from Paris

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana missouri with a wartime interruption fromThe 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