The Baton Rouge Riverbats (2003) or Baton Rouge River Bats (2002) was a

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

team based in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties i ...

. They played their home games at

Pete Goldsby Field Pete Goldsby Field is a baseball stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The park opened in 1956 and has a seating capacity of 2,000. History Goldsby Field was previously home to minor-league baseball Baton Rouge Rebels (Evangeline League) (1956–5 ...

in Baton Rouge.

History

This was the second stint of a professional baseball team in Baton Rouge since 1976. In 2002, they were one of six original members of the

Southeastern League The Southeastern League was the name of four separate baseball leagues in minor league baseball which operated in the Southeastern and South Central United States in numerous seasons between 1897 and 2003. Two of these leagues were associated wit ...

. The 2003 team finished with a record of 38-31 (.551) and won the Southeastern League Championship against the Pensacola Pelicans. The team disbanded after the 2003 season along with the

Notable players

Steve Bourgeois Steven James Bourgeois (born August 4, 1972), is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in with the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted and threw right-handed. Bourgeois had a 1–3 record, with a 6 ...

Seth Thibodeaux Seth Thibodeaux (born 1980) is an American baseball coach and former catcher. He currently is assistant coach for the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns. He played college baseball at LSU Eunice from 1999 to 2000 before transferring to William Carey, wher ...

* Jason Williams * John Henry Williams

References

Professional baseball teams in Louisiana Defunct independent baseball league teams Defunct Southeastern League teams Defunct minor league baseball teams Baseball teams established in 2002 Baseball teams disestablished in 2003 2002 establishments in Louisiana 2003 disestablishments in Louisiana Southeastern League teams Defunct baseball teams in Louisiana {{BatonRougeLA-sport-stub