Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:5XL Greensboro briefly rebranded as the

Greensboro briefly rebranded as the Pirates in the early 1950s before returning to the Patriots name in 1954 as a Boston Red Sox affiliate

The franchise played at John Petrakis Field on Fourth Street near the Mississippi River

The Western Association folded at the end of 1954

one season and out

a two-time MLB All-Star and World Series champion

Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:5XL Greensboro briefly rebranded as theThe 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