Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:M The Georgia-Florida League folded after

The Georgia-Florida League folded after 1958

The name was the natural choice for the seat of state government

based in Shawnee

Business manager Al Gionfriddo was the ex-Brooklyn Dodger forever remembered for robbing Joe DiMaggio of a certain home run in the 1947 World Series

Professional baseball returned to Davenport in 1946 with a Chicago Cubs affiliate that won the regular season pennant

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:M The Georgia-Florida League folded afterThe 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