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This Week in Toledo History Week of 5/3/2021


May 3
1838 - First church building opens in Toledo at corner of Superior and Cherry Street.
1842 - City of Toledo builds a new fire station on Summit Street between Adams and Cherry Streets.
1889 - The Pemberville Leader begins publication.
1903 - Tragedy strikes a large group of Polish travelers from Toledo when many of the group are run over by a locomotive in Detroit. Hundreds had been waiting on the tracks for a return train to Toledo when they were hit. Nine people are killed and scores injured.
1954 - Grant Murray Field at Waite High School is dedicated.
1966 - WDHO TV, Channel 24, owned by Daniel H. Overmyer, begins broadcasting in Toledo. It is the city s third commercial TV station and later changes its call sign to WNWO-TV. ....

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What's in a (team) name?, Part 1


What s in a (team) name?, Part 1
By JohnW53
on Jan 3, 2021, 4:38am CST
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Over the years, picking a name for a new professional sports team has become a complicated process, often involving consultants, focus groups and contests in which fans are invited to submit proposed names.
Teams frequently want a name that is striking, if not downright bizarre. Case in point: the Seattle Kraken, who will begin play in the National Hockey League in 2021-22.
Two of my all-time favorite names belonged to minor league hockey teams: the Toledo Goaldiggers and the Macon Whoopees.
Minor league baseball has had the likes of the Albuquerque Isotopes, El Paso Chihuahuas, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, Lansing Lugnuts, Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, New Orleans Baby Cakes, Pensacola Blue Wahoos and Richmond Flying Squirrels. ....

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