Despite living in the Toledo, Ohio area growing up I had never been to a Toledo Mud Hens game. The Mud Hens are the Detroit Tigers AAA affiliate which is handy as Toledo is just down the road, I-75 to be precise, from Detroit. The Mud Hens are one of the best known minor league baseball teams, thanks mostly to Toledo native Jamie Farr who played Corporal Klinger on M*A*S*H and when Klinger was not wearing a dress to prove he was crazy so he would get sent home from Korea, he was often wearing what was supposed to be a Toledo Mud Hens hat and jersey.
Apparently the hat is actually a Texas Rangers hat but Klinger often waxed rhapsodic about Toledo and it was intended to be a Mud Hens cap.
Anyway, we had an opportunity to go to a game last night for “free” and we did.
It was kind of chilly and it drizzled a bit but it was a fun game, with the Mud Hens defeating the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 9 to 2. Fifth Third Field is a very nice ballpark, we were in club seats but it was still pretty nice. A foul ball came as close to me as one ever has, the adults let a little boy with a baseball mitt have it.
Minor League baseball is a lot more fun than Major League, the quality of play isn’t quite the same of course although AAA is only one step down from the big show, but the games are a lot of fun. That is one more thing knocked off my list of things a Toledoan should have done in their life.
We got home kind of late so it might not be an exciting day of HATE POSTS here at Dissident Thoughts.
So, how many of those players are local White Toledoans?
I am guessing zero
If you’re ever in Japan, make a point of attending one of their baseball games. Talk about fun. They have their own brass and drum sections playing songs that the fans sing along to. Level of play of the top teams is pretty good. Basement dwellers are probably AAA level, and a heckuva lot easier to walk up and buy a ticket on game day. Meiji Stadium, home of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, is a really nice open air stadium about the size of most AAA stadiums.
I would much rather visit Japan and attend a baseball game than go to Paris or London.
Korea has the same kind of baseball culture- cheerleaders and everything. If you’re in the hometown stadium with the opponent’s ball hat on, no one will shoot you for it.
And they have fried chicken and beer. It’s a thing.
Where in Tokyo might I find Miss Yakult, please?
Next on the bucket list ought to be to see the TinCaps, formerly The Wizards, heh.
For Wayne’s version of baseball.
Milton
Tin caps, great ballpark, fun time
We have been to see the Tin Caps a number of times, I should go again soon as it has been a while.
Spring Training games in AZ are on par with AAA league games for a fun outing. No fights from the physics students. Used to be cheap tickets and even lawn seating but last year the prices matched ML game tickets so I guess the league figured out how to monetize the hell out of it.
I would like to get down to a Tigers spring training game sometime but I don’t especially like going to Florida.
Fifth Third Stadium is where Portside was all those years ago, right?
I went to many Mudhens games back in the 80s when they still played in Maumee near the Andersons.
It is the same basic area as portside, my first job was at the Andersons when the store was still open and I saw Lee Greenwood in concert where the Mud Hens used to play, what a huge upgrade the new field is
Minor League ball is still fun to watch. Corpus Christ has the Hooks, the Astros’ AA team. They play in Whataburger FIeld (awesome burgers) and it overlooks the huge ship channel bridge into Corpus Christi Bay with the USS Lexington aircraft carrier moored there museum style.
The AAA team is the Sugarland Space Cowboys (a suburb of Houston) and I’ve been wanting to go but haven’t thus far. I know it’s silly sportsball, but it’s still fun to catch an Astros game on occasion.
Baseball is fun because you don’t have to pay that much attention to what is going on, it is better for casual and social fans.
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Sounds like a blast!
It was fun, we might go back and do the zoo in the morning, then a Mud Hens game and then dinner with my dad some Saturday.
Philadelphia Phillies as “daycare” center while Pappy wrapped up Army career is still solid gold.
Got a Mike Schmidt autograph on a 1984 Topps by going early for batting practice.
He said you look like a grown man, I am 13, sir. He LOL!
That game where they spanked the Mets for 20+ runs and Von Hayes hit for the cycle was a winner with the crowd going wild.
Got to see Steve Carlton pitch but I was sitting in his road mung side ho seat and had to move.
All that we have lost, only makes us stronger.
Even Mighty Casey could do a better job than the clowns we have now running it all into the ground.
Mike Schmidt was a man’s man.
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