Rayne Rice Birds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Greenville Majors Mudville was a common derisive

Mudville was a common derisive nickname for Stockton at the time

The name reached back to the region's Californio past

were one of the few franchises in the predominantly Louisiana circuit to represent another state

As a New York Giants affiliate in 1952

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 Mudville was a common derisiveThe 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