The Toledo Mud Hens are getting ready for opening day!  Our beloved "Hens" will pack the ball park at Fifth Third Field.  It never fails on opening day - there won't be standing room left! 

You see, we here in Toledo, Ohio, are mighty proud of our Mud Hens.  We truly enjoy one of America's oldest and most attended sports.  And, if ya wanna know the truth, we really adore the mascots - Muddy and Muddonna.

Now, some folks wonder what in the world is a Mud Hen.  On doing a little research the team's website has about the most concise definition:

A Mud Hen is a marsh bird with short wings and long legs that inhabits swamps or marshes. Such birds have been known as marsh hens, rails, coots, or Mud Hens.

The Toledo baseball club earned its present name in 1896 and has kept it with very few exceptions ever since. In that year the team played at Bay View Park. The surrounding marshland was frequented by these strange birds. The abundance of Mud Hens near the park brought about the nickname and the rest, as they say, is history. (courtesy of Toledo Mud Hens)

Being that Toledo, Ohio was developed on swamp and marshland, it only seems right that our home team would carry a moniker symbolic of that heritage.  And just to put it all in perspective, here is what a mud hen really looks like:

 **These graphics borrowed from the official Toledo Mud Hens website**

 

The season opener for the Toledo Mud Hens will take place on April 3, 2008, at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo, OH.  There will  be a buzz going all evening

 

 

The Toledo Board of Realtors has been working diligently to promote our area and to let the consumer know that Toledo is a viable market with many great buys available. 

In order to facilitate that effort, we came up with a website to help the consumer understand the homebuying process and to encourage those that are able to get out there and make their dream come true.

Our new website, Why Buy Toledo, will be promoted by a banner flying over the ball park on opening day.  A small plane will be flying a trailer/banner over the park in hopes that curiosity will cause folks to check us out - to get on board. 

So - spring has sprung!  The Boys of Summer are back!  Batter up!!!!!!