Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana bi-state league commissioned in 1941 as one

commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country

the Kennebecs existed for only a single season before folding

Their Three-I seasons were played out against the backdrop of wartime

and played baseball from 1923-25

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana bi-state league commissioned in 1941 as oneThe 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