and Sunday crowds that made baseball the biggest show in town
the Beardstown Infants moved to Jacksonville and also played as the Jacks
put up an even bigger season at the plate (
that played in the Class D Blue Grass League during the 1922 and 1923 seasons
returned home to serve as the club's playing manager in 1927 after his long Red Sox and White Sox career
Hammond Berries T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana ohio and Sunday crowds that madeThe 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,