Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Drink a reference to the formerly

a reference to the formerly separate towns of Winston and Salem

were one of the Evangeline League's out-of-state franchises

devastating crops

later renamed the Hens

The Decatur Commodores

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Drink a reference to the formerlyThe 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