Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:M they hosted what is believed

they hosted what is believed to be the first professional baseball game played in Iowa

in Eastern Kentucky

and neither the 1917 season nor the franchise itself survived the war

the Santa Cruz-area native who began that season with the Sand Crabs before moving on to San Jose and then the Boston Red Sox

and winning the 1941 first-round series before falling to Thomasville in the championship

Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:M they hosted what is believedThe Baton Rouge Red Sticks, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, played in the Evangeline League from 1946 through 1955. The team's name is a translation of the city's own: Baton Rouge is French for "red stick," named by early French explorers for a tall red painted cypress pole they found on the Mississippi riverbank, used by local tribes as a boundary marker between hunting grounds. The Red Sticks won the 1950 Evangeline League championship, scoring a