Crowley Millers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Atlantic City Surf fans and writers also called

fans and writers also called them the Monks or simply the Missions

The city's baseball energy afterward went into the semi-pro and town-team circuits that thrived across Sonoma County for decades

Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford

Dubs (1906-15)

in the lineup

Crowley Millers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Atlantic City Surf fans and writers also calledThe 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.