Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana missouri The Paris Bourbonites were a

The Paris Bourbonites were a minor league baseball team from Paris

and the Sherburne River Rats

before the league folded at the end of the season

offering year-round comfort with lasting durability

where they finished 53-94 in their first season and 65-79 in their second

Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana missouri The Paris Bourbonites were aThe 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