Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors As a New York Giants

As a New York Giants affiliate in 1952

Mudville was a common derisive nickname for Stockton at the time

then sat out 1954 under the Tifton Indians name before returning as the Blue Sox again in 1955

representing the Manufacturers through the product that built the town rather than through a generic occupational figure

Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors As a New York GiantsThe 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