New Iberia Pelicans T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana alexandria aces Houma returned to the Evangeline

Houma returned to the Evangeline League in 1946 under the Indians name

part of the great agricultural boom that gave the early California minors some of the best team names ever recorded: the Fig Growers joined the Raisin Growers

and the rest is history

played the 1899 season in the California League

The Rancheros opened at home at Laguna Park on April 24

New Iberia Pelicans T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana alexandria aces Houma returned to the EvangelineThe New Iberia Pelicans, based in New Iberia, Louisiana, carried the name of Louisiana's state bird during the stretches that best defined the franchise's legacy. New Iberia fielded a team in every Evangeline League season but the last, making it the second most consistent city in the circuit behind only Alexandria. The city's teams appeared under several names, most extensively as the Cardinals, before the Pelicans banner flew during the franchise's