Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt rr_track_western Small-city baseball was the soul

Small-city baseball was the soul of a community in that era

Racing back from the dead in a car Chrysler never had the guts to mass produce is peak unfinished business energy

Minor league teams like these gave small cities something beyond their institutions to rally around

" "SAY GOODBYE

I got a fever

Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt rr_track_western Small-city baseball was the soulJeanerette 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