Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:L and pitcher Randy Jones appeared

and pitcher Randy Jones appeared in Alexandria in 1972 and 1973 before winning the 1976 NL Cy Young Award with San Diego

The Owingsville Merchants were a minor league or semi-pro baseball team from Owingsville

The Wichita Falls Spudders carried one of the most distinctive names in Texas minor league baseball across nearly four decades

and economic shifts

In their second season the Raiders captured the 1949 pennant with an 88-52 record and drew 61

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:L and pitcher Randy Jones appearedThe 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