Clarence “Satch” Satchel

April 14, 1940 – Clarence “Satch” Satchel is born in Cleveland. His musical leanings lead to work as a saxophonist with the Ohio Untouchables, which becomes a preeminent funk band of the era under the name The Ohio Players.
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Pete Rose

April 13, 1963 – Scrappy Pete Rose, told his whole life that he was too small to play sports, gets his first hit in the big leagues - a triple for the Reds off the Pirates’ Bob Friend. Too slow? Pete would show 'em. Rose becomes baseball’s all-time hit leader but a pariah for betting on games (and probably throwing a few, while managing, to wipe out debts to a NYC mobster named Bruno, aka Jocko).
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55.13 pound Muskellunge

April 12, 1972 – Joe D. Lykins of Piedmont heads out onto Piedmont Lake and catches a titanic, 55.13 pound Muskellunge that is 50 ¼ inches long and a state record.
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Richie Furay

April 11, 1966 – Buffalo Springfield debuts as an alt-country-folk-pop band at The Troubadour in Hollywood and eventually becomes the house band. Yellow Springs native Richie Furay is lead vocalist and would play and sing on the 60’s anthem For What It’s Worth. He would also become a founding member of Poco. Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Johnson’s Island

April 10, 1862: The first prisoners-of-war arrive at Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie near Sandusky, the only Union camp exclusively for internment of Confederates. All told, some 15,000 Confederates would be kept there during the Civil War, the most at any one time reaching 2,800. In 1864, Confederates hatched a plot to capture a gunboat and initiate a mass escape, but it failed.
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Toledo Mud Hens

April 9, 2002: The Toledo Mud Hens minor-league baseball team plays its first game at the new, 10,300-capacity Fifth Third Field in downtown. Because of the team’s quality and long history (playing as the Mud Hens since 1896), and because of the urban setting, it consistently draws over 500,000 fans in a season – a fantastic amount for the minors. Newsweek named Fifth Third Field the best minor-league park
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Tony Packo’s Café

Tony Packo’s Café at 1902 Front Street in Toledo has one of the stranger decor touches in all of restaurant history: a wall with hundreds of hot dog buns signed by fans and visiting celebrities.
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