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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
Good choice for Baton Rouge... the Red Sticks were in the old Class D Evangeline League in the 40s and 50s... Baton Rouge means "red stick" in French... the local Indian tribes used a red stick to mark tribal boundary lines.
As a teenager in the 1950s in the New Orleans Times-Picayune sports pages I followed the Baton Rouge Red Sticks, Lafayette Bulls, New Iberia Pelicans, Houma Indians, Crowley Millers, Hammond Berries, Monroe Sports and Lake Charles Lakers. Every day the newspaper posted box scores of the Evangeline League along with my favorite and most belove league of all-time, the Southern Assocition.
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I don't know if they still have it or not since the library has been renovated, but the Evangeline League records were kept at Nicholls State. One of my history professors, Paul Leslie, was the historian in charge of the records. Still to this day, my favorite college class was one with Dr. Leslie, "The History of America Through Baseball."