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and professional baseball did not return to the city until 2009 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods

The Mount Sterling Essex were a minor league baseball team based in Mount Sterling

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Rayne Rice Birds T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana mountain state league • Drop tailThe 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