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On June 17, 1880, John Montgomery Ward of the Providence Grays threw a perfect game against the Buffalo Bisons at Messer Street Grounds. It was the second perfect game in Major League Baseball history, which at the time only consisted of the National League (NL). Ward's perfect game occurred just five days after Lee Richmond's perfect game.
The Buffalo Bisons were an American baseball team in 1890 who were a member of the short-lived Players' League. The team was managed by Jack Rowe and Jay Faatz , and they finished eighth (last) with a record of 36-96 while playing their home games at Olympic Park .
The Buffalo Bisons were a professional Triple-A minor league baseball team based in Buffalo, New York that was founded in 1886 and last played in the International League from 1912 to 1970. Over the course of their existence, the Bisons won the Junior World Series three times (1904, 1906 and 1961).
The team's 1991 single-season attendance of 1,240,951 remains a Minor League Baseball record. [11] Buffalo Bisons hosting Nashville Sounds for their final game at War Memorial Stadium, August 1987. The Cleveland Indians replaced the Pittsburgh Pirates as Major League Baseball affiliate of the Buffalo Bisons prior to the 1995 season. [12]
The original Buffalo Bisons baseball club played in the National League between 1879 and 1885. The Bisons played their games at Riverside Park (1879–1883) and Olympic Park (1884–1885) in Buffalo, New York. In 1886, they moved into minor league baseball as members of the original International League.
Riverside Park is a former baseball ground located in Buffalo, New York, United States. The ground was home to the Buffalo Bisons baseball club of the International Association in 1878, and the National League from 1879 through 1883. Although first used in 1878, its name as known to historians first surfaced in 1882.
Baseball: International League . Buffalo Bisons (Buffalo, New York; Rochester Red Wings (Rochester, New York) Basketball: The Basketball League (TBL) Rochester Kingz (Rochester, New York) American Basketball Association (ABA) Buffalo eXtreme (Buffalo, New York) Football: National Football League (NFL) Buffalo Bills (Buffalo, New York) Ice hockey:
The 1890 Buffalo Bisons baseball team was a member of the short lived Players' League, and an "outlaw" franchise that used the name of the existing minor league Buffalo Bisons without permission.