Buffalo Buffeds/Blues

Buffalo Buffeds/Blues

The Buffalo Buffeds 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.

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 was sold for $10 a piece.

In the 1914 season, the Buffeds posted a 80-71 record (.530) and finished in fourth place seven games behind 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 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.

Fact

*As is usual, the baseball uniform is adorned with a team or city name angled across the shirt front in script lettering. Buffalo became the first big league club to use this design during the 1914 season in the Federal League. It was not until 1930 that the script lettering was reintroduced into big league baseball, when the Detroit Tigers adopted the style that has since been embraced by nearly every major league club at some time during its history. The earliest known use of script lettering on any professional team uniform is 1902, when the style was used by both Oakland and San Francisco of the California League.

External links

* [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/lettering.htm Baseball Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BFL/ Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/about/page.jsp?ymd=20060120&content_id=38773&vkey=about_t422&fext=.jsp&sid=t422 Bison's History: The 1910's]
* [http://www.toyou.com/fl/ballparks/index.html Federal League ballparks]
* [http://www.toyou.com/fl/teams/index.html Federal League teams]


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