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The first Smokies iteration produced just one major leaguer

with San Francisco's entry reborn as the Seals

That arrangement put the highest level of minor league baseball ever seen in San Jose on the field at Municipal Stadium

We traced the name's strange

Baton Rouge Red Sticks T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:2XL Tommy HelmsThe 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