Baton Rouge Red Sticks Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Navy reportedly because the players were

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

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

Natchez is one of the oldest European settlements on the Mississippi River

282 and making the Three-I All-Star second team despite a hernia-shortened season

Also on the 1939 Alexandria staff was Virgil Trucks

Baton Rouge Red Sticks Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Navy reportedly because the players wereThe 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