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This rare 1965 stadium photo shows the Mud Hens in their first year as the current iteration of the team as we now know it in modern times. This stadium is the old Lucas County Recreation Center located in Maumee, Ohio. This was where the Mud Hens played from 1965-2001. The Mud Hens left Swayne Field after the 1955 season. The Recreation Center was an old horse race track turned into a baseball stadium.
Approximate size: 3.5 inches x 3.5 inchesThe Toledo Mud Hens are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. They are located in Toledo, Ohio, and play their home games at Fifth Third Field. A Mud Hens team has played in Toledo for most seasons since 1896, including a 50-year history as a member of the now defunct American Association. The current franchise was established in 1965. They joined Triple-A East in 2021, but this was renamed the International League in 2022.
Professional baseball had been played off and on in Toledo since 1883, and the Mud Hens era began in 1896 with the \"Swamp Angels\", who played in the Interstate League. They played in Bay View Park, which was outside the Toledo city limits and therefore not covered by the city\'s blue laws. The park was located near marshland inhabited by American coots, also known as \"mud hens.\" For this reason, the local press soon dubbed the team the \"Mud Hens\"—a nickname that has stuck to Toledo baseball teams for all but a few years since. After only one season, the team moved to Armory Park.
A Mud Hens team played in the Interstate League from 1896 through 1900, then the Western Association in 1901, the American Association from 1902 through 1913, and the Southern Michigan League in 1914. The team used the Swamp Angels nickname during 1901. No team was fielded in 1915.
The team resumed play in the American Association in 1916 as the Iron Men, a nickname they used through 1918. The Mud Hens name returned in 1919, and the team competed in the American Association until 1952.
Mid-season in 1952, team owner Danny Menendez moved the Mud Hens to Charleston, West Virginia,[4] where they competed as the Charleston Senators through 1960. Toledo fielded a replacement franchise in the American Association from 1953 to 1955, the Toledo Sox, which was the former Milwaukee Brewers minor-league team. That franchise subsequently moved to Wichita, Kansas, for the 1956 season, where it competed as the Wichita Braves through 1958.
In 1965, the Richmond Virginians franchise of the International League moved to Toledo and became the current incarnation of the Mud Hens. They were based in Maumee, Ohio, at the converted Fort Miami Fairgrounds. The local ownership group led by Ned Skeldon signed with the New York Yankees to be its top farm team.
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