Crowley Millers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana alabama The team took its name

The team took its name from the strawberry farming that defined the region: Hammond sat at the center of Louisiana's strawberry belt

the league stretched from the Gulf Coast to the plains of West Texas

The 1913 Coal Miners struggled

based in Waycross

Louis Cardinals farm club in 1957

Crowley Millers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana alabama The team took its nameThe Crowley Millers, based in Crowley, Louisiana, joined the Evangeline League in 1951 and won the league championship in their second season. Crowley had long carried the nickname "Rice Capital of the World," and the Millers took their name from the rice processing mills that anchored the city's economy. The Crowley Millers arrived in the Evangeline League in 1951, having spent the previous season in the Gulf Coast League before that circuit folded.