Hammond Berries T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:3XL and berry farms

and berry farms

that played during the 1940s

played a single season in the Class C Western League in 1933

and it came from the people: a naming contest was won by Wendell Simons

Hammond Berries T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:3XL and berry farmsThe 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,