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Defunct minor-league professional baseball team
Minor league baseball team
The
Toledo Sox
were a
minor league
baseball
team based in
Toledo, Ohio
. They played in the
American Association
from 1953 to 1955 at the
Triple-A
level as an affiliate of the
Milwaukee Braves
.
History
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Entering the 1952 season,
Toledo, Ohio
, had been home to the
Toledo Mud Hens
for nearly every season since 1896. Mid-season in 1952, owner Danny Menendez moved the Mud Hens to
Charleston, West Virginia
,
[1]
where they competed as the
Charleston Senators
through 1960.
Starting in 1953, Toledo fielded a replacement franchise in the
American Association
, the Toledo Sox, which was the former
Milwaukee Brewers
minor-league team. The Sox played in Toledo through the 1955 season. The first game the team played, in April 1953, was also the first game broadcast on radio by
sports announcer
Frankie Gilhooley
, who went on to broadcast baseball games in Toledo through 2009.
[2]
Sox
manager
George Selkirk
was named the
American Association Manager of the Year
in 1953.
[3]
In 1956, the Sox moved to
Wichita, Kansas
, where they competed as the
Wichita Braves
through 1958. Toledo was without a minor-league team from 1956 through 1964; in 1965, a new Mud Hens team began playing in the Triple-A
International League
.
[4]
Season records
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]
See also
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References
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- ^
Whiteford, Mike (August 17, 2019).
"Out of nowhere in 1952, Charleston had a chance for Class AAA baseball"
.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
. Retrieved
July 27,
2021
.
- ^
Husman, John R. (November 19, 2010).
"Frank Gilhooley - A Toledo Broadcast Legend"
.
MiLB.com
. Retrieved
July 28,
2021
.
- ^
"Selkirk the Best"
.
Kansas City Times
. November 14, 1953. p. 23
. Retrieved
July 28,
2021
– via newspapers.com.
- ^
"Toledo, Ohio Encyclopedia"
.
Baseball-Reference.com
. Retrieved
July 28,
2021
.
- ^
"Yanks, Dodgers in Little Series, Too"
.
Coshocton Tribune
.
Coshocton, Ohio
.
UP
. October 1, 1953. p. 5
. Retrieved
July 28,
2021
– via newspapers.com.
- ^
a
b
c
Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (2007).
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball
(Third ed.).
Baseball America
.
ISBN
1932391177
.