Baton Rouge Red Sticks Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Navy The Natchez Pilgrims

The Natchez Pilgrims

reportedly because the players were "not gentlemen on the ball field

They hailed from Marshall

At the peak of the minor league era in the late 1940s

The Mules era was disrupted from the start

Baton Rouge Red Sticks Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Navy The Natchez PilgrimsThe 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