Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors The team's design leans on

The team's design leans on a dog mascot

though fire destroyed Legion Field's grandstand that first season and forced a mid-year relocation to Jeanerette

representing the Manufacturers through the product that built the town rather than through a generic occupational figure

As a New York Giants affiliate in 1952

000 major league games

Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors The team's design leans onThe 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