Danny Menendez, the owner of the Toledo Mud Hens, is indicted and charged with cheating three fans out of $1,700 worth of tickets after he failed to keep his promise of keeping the team in Ohio until the end of the season. Menendez moved them to Charleston, WV, midway through the season, where they became the Charleston Senators, and kept the proceeds from 38,000 extra seat sales.

This Day In Baseball

On August 5, 1952 — Danny Menendez, the owner of the Toledo Mud Hens, is indicted and charged with cheating three fans out of $1,700 worth of tickets after he failed to keep his promise of keeping the team in Ohio until the end of the season. Menendez moved them to Charleston, WV, midway through the season, where they became the Charleston Senators, and kept the proceeds from 38,000 extra seat sales.

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