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Old Sun Jun 17, 2007, 07:21pm
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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
That still doesn't explain how it got that goofy name. Were they building ballparks in groups of three and this was the fifth time they did it?
The Cincinnati-based company (Number two in the midwest! Seventy billion in assets!) was formed in 1906 from the merger of the Fifth National Bank and the Third National Bank.
Fifth Third Bank helped build some ballparks, ... or fields.
...I guess....
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