The Toledo Sox were a

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team based in

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. They played in the American Association from 1953 to 1955 at the Triple-A level as an affiliate of the

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History

Entering the 1952 season,

, had been home to the

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for nearly every season since 1896. Mid-season in 1952, owner Danny Menendez moved the Mud Hens to

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, where they competed as the

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through 1960. Starting in 1953, Toledo fielded a replacement franchise in the American Association, the Toledo Sox, which was the former

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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

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Frankie Gilhooley, who went on to broadcast baseball games in Toledo through 2009. Sox

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was named the American Association Manager of the Year in 1953. In 1956, the Sox moved to

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, 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

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