Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:2XL was a Class D minor

was a Class D minor league that operated intermittently from 1910 to 1955

they were part of a rich baseball tradition in the Ohio River Valley

The Augusta Kennebecs played from 1895-97 and were members of the New England League and later the Maine State League

While these jerseys have been hard to find since the team folded

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:2XL was a Class D minorThe 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