Hammond Berries Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Milan-Trenton Twins the Eagles were the class

the Eagles were the class of the Big State League in 1952

His average never fell below

They were one chapter in a franchise that had carried professional baseball in the Kansas state capital under more than a dozen different names since 1886

including the Ashland Fruit Company team

the team was purchased by businessman Vick Smith and moved to Bowling Green

Hammond Berries Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Milan-Trenton Twins the Eagles were the classThe Hammond Berries, based in Hammond, Louisiana, were the most successful franchise in the Evangeline League's post war era, winning the championship in 1947, 1949, and 1951. The team took its name from the strawberry farming that defined the region: Hammond sat at the center of Louisiana's strawberry belt, and the club played home games at Berry Stadium on the campus of what is now Southeastern Louisiana University. The Berries started slowly,