Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt union " and "LEADVILLE

" and "LEADVILLE

" and "1902" flanking a cartoon beet mascot in muted reddish-purple and green

Neighbors came for the lanes but stayed for the community

two blue hand-drawn hands meet in the center

Places like this defined an era when the ocean was the only amenity that mattered

Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt union " and "LEADVILLERayne 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