Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Men's Clothing and the Egyptians later competed

and the Egyptians later competed in the Kitty League from 1903–1906

were founded in 1923 by the Madison Athletic Association and spent nearly two decades working their way up through Wisconsin's minor league ladder

Their name comes from the timber industry that experienced a boom in Lufkin in the late 1800s and Lufkin's location between Davy Crockett National Forest and Angelina National Forest

and finished the year in San Francisco

a rhyming nickname of the sort that filled early minor league standings

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Men's Clothing and the Egyptians later competedThe 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