Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Color:Heather True Royal A yellow-gold illustrated tiki hut

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

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

and birds behind him

Communities rallied around clubs like these

" sits at the top and "OVERRATED" at the bottom

Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Color:Heather True Royal A yellow-gold illustrated tiki hutJeanerette 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