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Post by tidequeen on Oct 28, 2013 3:10:28 GMT -5
10 Historical Facts About Toledo Mud Hens Baseball
There was no baseball team in Toledo from 1956 to 1964. In 1955, the team that was then the Mud Hens moved to Wichita, Kansas, to become the Wichita Braves. But in cheap nike nfl jerseys 1964 the New York Yankees brought its AAA team, formerly the Richmond Virginians to Toledo and that team became the Mud Hens.
In 1914 and 1915, the Mud Hens temporarily moved to Cleveland. The move was to help out the Cleveland Indians with a league feud. TheIndians'baseball park apparently had to wholesale new era hats have a game every day of the season for the Indians to avoid joining a new league. The plan worked and the threatening league died the next season.
When the team returned to Toledo in 1916, it was renamed the Toledo Iron Men. But that name only lasted for two years, and after that the "Mud Hens" title was born again.
Since 2004, every Mud Hens game has been on television thanks to the Buckeye Sports Cable Network.
Since 2002, the Toledo Mud Hens Cheap Michael Kors Handbags have played the team's home Cheap Polo Ralph Lauren games in downtown Toledo at Fifth Third Field.
In the sitcom television show MASH, the character known asKlinger(played by Jamie Farr) was from Toledo and a major fan of the Mud Hens. Farr was originally from Toledo, and he often wore Mud Hens hats or jerseys on the television program.
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