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