Hammond Berries Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Milan-Trenton Twins the team was purchased by

the team was purchased by businessman Vick Smith and moved to Bowling Green

adding 41 doubles and 31 home runs

played in the California League from 1962 through 1976 and again from 1983 through 1987

They were one chapter in a franchise that had carried professional baseball in the Kansas state capital under more than a dozen different names since 1886

Hammond Berries Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Milan-Trenton Twins the team was purchased byThe Hammond Berries, based in Hammond, Louisiana, were the most successful franchise in the Evangeline League's post war era, winning the championship in 1947, 1949, and 1951. The team took its name from the strawberry farming that defined the region: Hammond sat at the center of Louisiana's strawberry belt, and the club played home games at Berry Stadium on the campus of what is now Southeastern Louisiana University. The Berries started slowly,