Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Color:Heather True Royal and birds behind him

and birds behind him

Communities rallied around clubs like these

A yellow-gold illustrated tiki hut with detailed thatched roof sits centrally

Grocery prices so high that turning water into wine isn't a miracle

Class D baseball gave small towns like Laurel a heartbeat every summer

Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Color:Heather True Royal and birds behind himJeanerette is a small sugarcane town in Iberia Parish, and in 1934 it inherited a baseball team almost by accident. The original Lake Charles Explorers were displaced when their grandstand burned to the ground that May, and on May 29 the franchise relocated 90 miles east to Jeanerette and rebranded as the Blues. They joined the brand new Class D Evangeline League (a circuit Cajun fans nicknamed the "Pepper Sauce League") and went on to win the 1935