Fifth Third Field (Toledo, Ohio)

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Fifth Third Field
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Location 406 Washington Street
Toledo, Ohio 43604
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Owner Lucas County
Operator Toledo Mud Hens Baseball Club, Inc.
Capacity 10,300 (8,943 fixed seats)
Field size Left field: 320 ft
Center field: 400 ft
Right field: 320 ft
Surface Natural Grass
Construction
Broke ground October 20, 2000[1]
Opened April 9, 2002[5]
Construction cost $39,200,000
($51.6 million in 2024 dollars[2])
Architect HNTB
The Collaborative Inc.
Finkbeiner, Pettis & Strout Inc.
Project manager The Gateway Group[3]
Services engineer H. T. Bernsdorff, Inc[4]
General contractor Lathrop Construction Associates, Inc.[5]
Tenants
Toledo Mud Hens (IL) (2002–present)

Fifth Third Field is the name of a minor league baseball stadium in Toledo, Ohio. The facility is home to the Toledo Mud Hens, an International League team and the Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

The stadium seats 10,300 and opened in 2002. It hosted the 2006 Triple-A All-Star Game and home run derby. The stadium was named one of the best minor league ballparks in America by Newsweek.[6] In the summer of 2007, ESPN.com rated The Roost section of Fifth Third Field as the best seats to watch a game in minor league baseball.[7]

The Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank purchased the naming rights to the stadium.[8] Fifth Third Bank also holds the naming rights to Fifth Third Field in Dayton, Ohio, Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, Michigan and Fifth Third Arena on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.

Location

It is located in downtown Toledo, two blocks from the Maumee River. The new stadium replaced Ned Skeldon Stadium, located in suburban Maumee, Ohio, as the Mud Hens' home. Ned Skeldon Stadium was described as "quaint" or "rustic" and the new park was intended to boost development downtown.[9] A small commercial area has sprung up around the park, centered on St. Clair Street, on the park's southeast side.[10]

The street address is 406 Washington Street. The park is bounded by Washington Street (southwest, first base), North Huron Street (northwest, third base), Monroe Street/Henry Morse Way (northeast, left field) and Msgr. Jerome Schmidt Way/North St. Clair Street (southeast, right field).

The Fifth Third Field is part of a complex that includes the SeaGate Convention Centre and the Huntington Center (formerly known as the Lucas County Arena). The Lucas County Commissioners teamed with HNTB Architecture Inc., a national sports architecture firm located in Kansas City and local architects and landscape architects The Collaborative Inc, of Toledo to design the Mud Hens Stadium.[11]

Features

  • Fixed seats: 8,943
  • Picnic seats: 776
  • Handicap seats: 86
  • Seats in the "Roost": 282
  • Club Level seats: 1,200
  • Suites: 32[12]

The ballpark's largest crowd occurred during the Mud Hens home opener on April 6, 2012 when 13,227 fans witnessed the Mud Hens defeat the Indianapolis Indians by the score of 5–1.[13]

Scoreboards

In 2009, the Mud Hens installed new ribbon scoreboards along the first base and third base sides of the ballpark. They are in color and can display a variety of graphics, stats, and the game score. Also, the Mud Hens replaced their Fair Play Scoreboards scoreboard and Barco video board with a huge Daktronics video board display in left field which is in color and is a complete matrix board that shows the line score of the game. It is also zoned on the top 70% where it shows the current batter, animations, games and replays. The new Daktronics video board also replaced the Fair Play message board below the old Fair Play scoreboard.[14]

References

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Events and tenants
Preceded by Home of the Toledo Mud Hens
2002–present		 Succeeded by
current
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