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Following his death, the Buffalo Common Council voted to rename the address of Sahlen Field to One James D. Griffin Plaza in his honor. [5] A bronze sculpture of Griffin titled The First Pitch by artist William Koch was erected outside Sahlen Field in 2012 to honor Griffin's contributions in bringing the ballpark and professional baseball to ...
An aerial view of Buffalo when the blocks that became the venue's land were largely parking lots, July 1973. Mayor James D. Griffin and an investment group purchased the Jersey City A's of the Double-A class Eastern League for $55,000 in 1978, and the team began play as the Buffalo Bisons at War Memorial Stadium in 1979. [13]
The First Pitch is a 2012 bronze statue of James D. Griffin, by William Koch. [1] It is located at Swan Street and Washington Street, outside Sahlen Field in Buffalo.. Griffin, the former Mayor of Buffalo, was instrumental in getting Sahlen Field built and bringing the Buffalo Bisons franchise to the city while he was in office.
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One of South Buffalo's most famous politicians, James D. Griffin, served as mayor of Buffalo for 16 years and was noted for both his fiscal and social conservatism, to the point where the Republican and Conservative parties frequently cross-endorsed him.