The Buffalo Blues were a professional baseball club that played in the short-lived Federal League , which was a minor league in 1913 and a full-fledged outlaw major league the next two years. It was the last major league baseball team to be based in the city of Buffalo. In 1913 and 1914, as was the standard for Federal League teams, the franchise did not have an official name, instead going by the generic BufFeds .
15-529: The Buffalo team played at International Fair Association Grounds . Due to delays in construction of their new ballpark, the team did not play their first home game until a month after the Federal League season had started. Buffalo sold shares of stock of the team to the public through a series of newspaper ads. Preferred shares were sold for $ 10 each. In the 1914 season, the team posted an 80–71 record (.530) and finished in fourth place, seven games behind
30-624: A baseball venue in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a building or structure in Buffalo, New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Louis P. Fuhrmann Louis P. Fuhrmann (1868–1931) was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York , serving 1910–1917. He was born in Buffalo, New York on November 7, 1868. He grew up on
45-532: A horserace track and grandstand, and a bicycle track within the horserace track. The grounds were a few blocks northwest of the Buffalo Baseball Park . By the 1910s, the property had been sold to residential developers, and streets were being cut through to form the neighborhood that would become known as Hamlin Park. The Buffeds sought property for a ballpark in 1914 and found a northwest corner of
60-708: A third term on November 6, 1917, and returned to his meat packing business. In 1917, he was elected president of the Buffalo Baseball and Amusement Company and, in 1922, appointed a member of the Buffalo Board of Education. He died on February 23, 1931, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery . This article about a mayor in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Buffalo, New York
75-563: The NL in 1879 and came in third place only 10 games out from first place. They had two notable players; Hall of Famers Pud Galvin and Dan Brouthers . The Bisons team was dropped from the NL in 1885. In 1890, another Buffalo baseball team emerged coincidentally called the Bisons . This team, a member of the upstart Players League , has notably one of the worst season records to date. The Buffalo Blues were
90-654: The Toronto Blue Jays have played since 1977. Due to border travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic , the Blue Jays played their home games at Buffalo's Sahlen Field (a facility designed to be easily upgraded to MLB standards) for the 2020 and part of the 2021 Major League Baseball season , marking the first major league games played in Buffalo in 104 years. International Fair Association Grounds International Fair Association Grounds
105-573: The Buffalo players who had experience in the American and/or National leagues were Hugh Bedient , Walter Blair , Hal Chase , Tom Downey , Howard Ehmke , Ed Lafitte , Harry Lord and Russ Ford . Buffalo has had three attempts at major league baseball. Prior to the Buffeds, were the Buffalo Bisons , from which the current minor league team derives its name and history. They entered
120-639: The city's east side, graduated from Central High School, and began working in the meat packing industry . In 1892, he started his own meat-packing business at 1010 Clinton Street. He married Alice S. Meald on July 13, 1900. In 1905, Fuhrmann was first elected a member of the Board of Aldermen from the Fifth Ward. He was elected on November 2, 1909, as the Democratic candidate. Fuhrmann narrowly defeated Councilman Jacob Siegrist 35,384 to 34,145. The race
135-407: The last of the three major league teams Buffalo had between 1879 and 1915. A proposed Continental League team (to be owned by future Buffalo Sabres owner Robert O. Swados ) was slated for Buffalo in 1961, but the league folded before playing any games. The closest that any major league baseball team has come to Buffalo since then is Toronto (70 miles (110 km) away as the crow flies ), where
150-678: The league champion Indianapolis Hoosiers . In the league's second and final season, the team, then known as the Buffalo Blues , ended in sixth place with a 74–78 mark (.487), 12 games behind the Chicago Whales . An unusual player who played for the Blues in 1914 was Ed Porray ; the only major leaguer whose birthplace is not a place, but rather noted as "on a ship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean," on December 5, 1888. Between
165-619: The property available. The team broke ground on March 23, 1914 with Mayor Louis P. Fuhrmann in attendance and constructed a concrete ballpark called Federal League Park in the spring of 1914. The stands and diamond overlapped part of the site of the northwest corner of the racetrack and its grandstand. The ballpark itself was located on a block bound by Northland Avenue (north, third base); Lonsdale Road (an extension of Hauf Street) (west, first base); Hamlin Road (an extension of Balcom Street) (south, right field); Oriole (now Donaldson Road) T'ing-into
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#1732783255548180-586: The property from the east, and Wohlers Avenue (east, left field). In addition to baseball, the grounds hosted the 1914 New York Pro Football League championship, won by the Lancaster Malleables. The area is now fully residential buildings. A short street just to the east of the area, which existed when the fairgrounds was there, is a silent reminder: Inter Park Avenue. 42°55′1″N 78°50′55″W / 42.91694°N 78.84861°W / 42.91694; -78.84861 This article about
195-584: Was a fairgrounds and later a short-lived baseball and football ground located in Buffalo, New York . The ballpark, built on a portion of the former fairgrounds, was home to the Buffalo Buffeds/Blues of the Federal League in 1914 and 1915. The fairgrounds property was originally a large block bounded by Northland Avenue (north); Humboldt Parkway (east); Ferry Street (south); Dupont Street, and Jefferson Avenue (west). The grounds included
210-591: Was elected to a second term on November 4, 1913. He defeated Progressive and Citizens candidate John Lord O'Brian and Republican Thomas Stoddart. Fuhrmann prevailed with 30,219 votes to O'Brian's 23,757 and Stoddart's 13,447. During this term, America entered World War I and the Mayor was integral in assisting the Federal Government in coordination of the American forces. He was defeated in his quest for
225-657: Was so narrow that the 6 P.M. edition of the Buffalo Evening News called the race for Siegrist, before correcting it in the "EXTRA" edition. In 1913, Fuhrmann was narrowly renominated as the Democratic candidate. Mayor Fuhrmann lost the endorsement of the Democratic Party, who selected Black Rock maltster George J. Meyer. Mayor Fuhrmann went on to defeat him in the September 16th primary. He
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