Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Hoodie Size:L TENN" above a vintage cartoon

TENN" above a vintage cartoon mascot in light blue overalls and cap swinging a bat

and brown vintage postcard-style illustration depicts a mid-century hotel with a rooftop "SEA GULL" sign

Red bubble-style serif text reads "GEORGE & GRACIE" above a navy blue and white illustration of two humpback whales swimming together over stylized white wave lines

Spaced lettering at the bottom reads "ROSEMEAD

Teams like these were the heartbeat of early California minor league culture

Jeanerette Blues - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Hoodie Size:L TENN" above a vintage cartoonJeanerette 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