Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:L During the 1960s and 1970s

During the 1960s and 1970s the Lexington Parkette Hustlers were a semi-pro baseball team from Lexington

The Ironton Nailers were a minor league baseball team from Ironton

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

The franchise folded after the 1956 season

then the Colts in 1947

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:L During the 1960s and 1970sThe 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