Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt mexican part of a wave of

part of a wave of independent ball clubs chasing the dream outside affiliated baseball

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PV Bowl stood as Watsonville's around-the-clock gathering place

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and blue limbs holds a bottle in one hand and points with the other

Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt mexican part of a wave ofRayne sits in the rice growing prairies of Acadiana, where the long billed blackbirds known locally as rice birds shadowed the harvest each fall. The team carried that name when it became a charter member of the Class D Louisiana State League in 1920, lined up beside the Abbeville Sluggers, Alexandria Tigers, Lafayette Hubs, New Iberia Sugar Boys, and Oakdale Lumberjacks. The franchise folded along with the rest of the league on July 14 of its first