Buffalo Bisons (1886–1970)
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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
Governors' Cup in 1933. The 1927 Bisons were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.[1]
The team was last affiliated with the
Winnipeg, Manitoba in the middle of the 1970 season to become the Winnipeg Whips
.
History
Boston Americans
; the Bisons returned to the minors and the Eastern League that year.
This franchise continued in the Eastern/International League through June 1970, when it transferred to
RailRiders
.
Robert E. Rich Jr. in 1979 launched the current Buffalo Bisons franchise, returning professional baseball to Buffalo.
National Baseball Hall of Fame members
| Player/Manager[4] | Year Inducted | Years with the Bisons |
| Jimmy Collins | 1945 | 1893–1894 |
| Joe Tinker | 1946 | 1930 (Coach) |
| Herb Pennock | 1948 | 1916 |
| Bill Dickey | 1954 | 1928 |
| Gabby Hartnett | 1955 | 1946 (Manager) |
| Ray Schalk | 1955 | 1932–1937, 1950 (Manager) |
Joe McCarthy |
1957 | 1914–1915 |
| Pud Galvin | 1965 | 1894 |
| Lou Boudreau | 1970 | 1939 |
| Bucky Harris | 1975 | 1918–1919, 1944–1945 (Manager) |
| Johnny Bench | 1989 | 1966–1967 |
| Ferguson Jenkins | 1991 | 1962 |
| Jim Bunning | 1996 | 1953, 1955 |
| Frank Grant | 2006 | 1886–1888 |
References
- ^ "Top 100 Teams". MiLB.com. 2001. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ "1877 Buffalo Statistics".
- ^ Vecsey, George (March 28, 1990). "SPORTS OF THE TIMES; A Yankee Comes Back To Baseball". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
- ^ "Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame." Buffalo Bisons. Retrieved on August 19, 2018.